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Dark Passage
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Director:
Writers:
Delmer Daves (screenplay)
David Goodis (novel)
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Release Date:
27 September 1947 (USA) more
Tagline:
Two Of A Kind ! Tough . . . Torrid . . . Terrific ! more
Plot:
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence... more | full synopsis
User Reviews:
This is a GREAT MOVIE!!! more (86 total)

Cast

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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 Kennedy
Rory Mallinson ... George Fellsinger
Houseley Stevenson ... Dr. Walter Coley
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John Alvin ... Blackie (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
106 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound 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-16

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Trivia:
When Humphrey Bogart is riding in the car with Clifton Young during his escape, the voice on the radio is supplied by Dane Clark, another Warner's player. more
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Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, part of the canvas over the truck is attached. Next shot it is all free. more
Quotes:
Baker: I learned some things that even I never knew before. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hamlet (2000) more
Soundtrack:
Too Marvelous for Words more

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38 out of 54 people found the following review useful.
This is a GREAT MOVIE!!!, 24 May 2000
10/10
Author: inframan from the lower depths

Bogart made three unforgettable landmark films: Maltese Falcon, Big Sleep, and Dark Passage. Of the three, Dark Passage is the least known, which is tragic, because it measures up to the other three and in many ways surpasses them for atmosphere, characterization and psychological mood. Based on a novel by David Goodis, who also wrote the novel that Shoot The Piano Player was based on, it hits top marks in rankings of films in the categories of Film Noir, Existentialism, Dostoyevskian outlook and Kafkan world-view. Filled with forever unforgettable scenes and quotable lines, heart-wrenching views of fog-bound 1940s San Francisco and characters who seem to be stand-ins for the all our own private inauspicious never-to-be famous or successful friends and acquaintances, it's a brilliant metaphor for that dying species: the "individual". Also, of all the Bogart/Bacall pairings, it was the softest, tenderest & most romantic. Movies like this should be on some kind of everybody's-required-viewing-list.

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