What is so special about the movie is the complex narrative structure, with a flashback-in-flashback. The viewer has to keep his mind on three plots, the interview with the liaison officer by the English journalist, what happens on the French cruiser and how the men are trying to escape from Guyana. It is also interesting to study how France are portrayed. The men escape to help free France from the German occupation, the same republic with their fascist policeman, pro-German mobs and corrupt legal system that put them their in the first place. Notice that Humphrey Bogart as the French journalist Jean Matrac does not even attempt to speak English with a thick French accent like the others, it's the usual American English he always used. Sidney Greenstreet is impressive as always.
Review of Passage to Marseille
