15 Movie Titles That Blatantly Lied To You

7. Across The Pacific

What It Suggests

That something happens involving something crossing the Pacific, in the broadest sense. Given that it was marketed as a war movie, you'd think that it might have something to do with a Pacific battle.

The Truth

Nothing happens involving the Pacific. It's never even glimpsed in the film and nobody crosses it.

In this case, the title was never intended to be a lie: the film WAS initially Pacific-focused as it was supposed to involve a Japanese plot to bomb Pearl Harbour. Unfortunately, life imitated planned art and when the real bombing of Pearl Harbour happened, Warner Bros changed the film, rewriting it to be about an attack on Panama, which is in the Caribbean, not the Pacific.

For some reason, the title simply wasn't changed.