talent show. Much of the action in Across the Pacific, a 1942 spy film set in the three weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor, takes place aboard the Genoa Maru, a fictional Japanese cargo ship. The passengers include: former Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart), a disgraced United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, working as a secret U.S. agent; Canadian Alberta Marlow (Mary Astor) who claims to be from Medicine Hat; and Dr. Lorenz (Sydney Greenstreet) a great admirer of the Japanese. Characters spar over the dinner table and lurk in corridors. The Robert Heinlein novel The Rolling Stones concerns a family who buy a used spacecraft and travel the solar system, financed partly by trading goods to asteroid miners. The novel was derived from a shorter story titled Tramp Space Ship. In the Star Wars series, the oft-appearing Millennium Falcon is a tramp starship, as it is a freighter with no fixed route. In Episode VII, the new protagonist encounters the Falcon because it has been chartered by a king to haul fictional dangerous beasts. In Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Nazis intercept the Ark of the Covenant as it is being transported from Cairo to London aboard a tramp steamer Bantu Wind. In Lurulu, a 2004 sci-fi adventure, a crew of pilgrims and adventure seekers voyage to exotic planets on a tramp space freighter. References Further reading Freeman, N. (1998.) Seaspray and Whisky: Reminiscence of a tramp ship voyage. Pleasantville N.Y.: The Akadine Press. External links Internet Guide to Freighter Travel– traveling by tramp freighters