Across the Pacific

In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialed and discharged from the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Canadian Army, but is coldly rebuffed. He subsequently boards a Japanese ship, the ''Genoa Maru'', in City of Halifax, apparently to make his way to Republic of China (1912–1949) via the Panama Canal to fight for Chiang Kai-shek.