They didn't know it but MGM made a sort of topical film with Pacific Rendezvous. We had in fact broken the Japanese code around this time which was of course was invaluable.
I just watched this on TCM expecting to regret the hour and a half I would have lost afterwards. I turned out to be a very pleasant surprise.
**SPOILERS** A bit, to put it mildly, over the top as well as heads of the audience watching the film "Pacific Rendezvous" is so overloaded with complicated sub-plots that it just lose it, in trying to simply explain itself, well before the movie is even over.Were shown right at the beginning of the movie that the Japaneses Navy, in the spring of 1942, has not only gone beyond the Hawaiian islands but within twenty miles outside off San Francisco in sinking US munition and transport ships.
What really weakens what could have been a good narrative is the attempt to insert light hearted comic elements into the plot of PACIFIC RENDEZVOUS. Instead of playing it as straight drama, what could have emerged as a timely romantic drama about breaking the Japanese code during WWII becomes a trivial piece of fluff with an absurd spotlight on the silly character played by Jean Rogers.
Ludicrous violations of the most basic security regs are only the beginning. It's hard to see how they achieved such abysmal trash on such a low budget.
This is a rather tame fluff piece concerning WW II codes being broken, stolen, etc. The acting is about what I expected from this cast of MGM "B" actors.
Looking at some of the other comments, I started to wonder if they and I had seen different movies.
This MGM (5th Column) spy movie is made by the A team at MGM. It opens with a Japanese sub sinking an American ship.
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