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Release Date:
27 September 1947 (USA) moreTagline:
Two Of A Kind ! Tough . . . Torrid . . . Terrific ! morePlot:
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence... more | full synopsisNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Streets Of No Return: Shoot The Piano Player—Introductory Remarks by Essayist Mike White (From Twitch. 6 August 2008, 12:21 PM, PDT)
Streets Of No Return: The Unfaithful—Introductory Remarks By Noir Historian Dan Hodges
(From Twitch. 6 August 2008, 12:08 PM, PDT)
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Fascinating film noir moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Humphrey Bogart | ... | Vincent Parry | |
| Lauren Bacall | ... | Irene Jansen | |
| Bruce Bennett | ... | Bob | |
| Agnes Moorehead | ... | Madge Rapf | |
| Tom D'Andrea | ... | Cabby (Sam) | |
| Clifton Young | ... | Baker | |
| Douglas Kennedy | ... | Detective | |
| Rory Mallinson | ... | George Fellsinger | |
| Houseley Stevenson | ... | Dr. Walter Coley |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
106 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Certification:
Argentina:Atp | Germany:16 | Norway:16 | USA:Approved (PCA #12248) | Canada:PG (video rating) | UK:15 (1988) | UK:A (1947) (cut) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16Fun Stuff
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Franz Waxman's main title music for this movie is exactly the same as that used in To Have and Have Not (1944), for which he was uncredited. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Vincent Parry is holding the gun on Bake beneath the Golden Gate bridge near the end of the movie, Baker's hands are alternately open/closed between shots. moreQuotes:
[Vincent meets a discredited plastic surgeon]Dr. Walter Coley: Ever see any botched plastic jobs? If a man like me didn't like a fellow... he could surely fix him up for life. Make him look like a bulldog, or a monkey. I'll make you look as if you've lived.
Vincent Parry: I have, doc.
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Wow, we are really asked to believe a lot in this film. Typically movies can only get away with one or two unlikely plot elements, but somehow I still enjoyed 'Dark Passage' despite numerous key elements' implausibility.
The film opens to a shot of convicted felon Parry (Bogart) in a barrel in back of a truck headed down the road. He shakes the barrel, takes a nasty roll and staggers out. It's just the first of many doubt-inducing sequences.
The film, with its plot problems aside, is really an excellent film noir study. We are taken through most of the first half of the film from the first-person Parry (Bogart) view. I found this fascinating, despite wooden dialogue and continuous unrealistic steadiness of the camera. I think the base story of 'Dark Passage' is superb, with all its film noir elements. I especially like the first-person view, which then transforms through a surrealistic imagery scene of plastic surgery, into the normal third-person view.
One plot element I particularly take issue with is that, although Parry gets a new face, we are asked to believe that his distinctive Bogart voice cannot be recognised by the closest of his acquaintances. He makes no effort whatsoever to account for this, and this is given no thought in the slightest.
The film is one I would personally love to make - I would like to direct the thing myself, and revise the script a bit, make it more real in dialogue and plot primarily. This is a feeling I've not oft encountered, because I've almost always felt a director has done, even when he presents a wrong point of view, a better job than I could do. Due to my love for the story here I was torn - torn I tell you - in my selection of a vote for this film, but arrived at 7. I took off for the unrealistic factors, but made sure to preserve the respectability of the film. It is, incontestably, a classic - and in my opinion, just because a film is old doesn't mean it is. I respect this film.