Dark Passage (1947 film)
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| Directed by | Delmer Daves |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald |
| Written by | David Goodis (novel) Delmer Daves |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett Agnes Moorehead, Clifton Young |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | Sid Hickox |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | September 5, 1947 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | English |
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Dark Passage (1947) is a Warner Bros. film noir directed by Delmer Davis and stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film is based on the novel by David Goodis. Dark Passage would be the third of four films real-life husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall would make together. Franz Waxman's main title music for this movie is the same theme used in To Have and Have Not (1944), for which he was uncredited. This film, like Lady in the Lake released a year earlier, employs a subjective camera technique in which the viewer sees the action through Bogart's "eyes." When this movie was released, Bogart was Hollywood's highest paid actor, making more than $450,000 a year.
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[edit] Shooting Location
Parts of the movie were filmed on location in San Francisco, California, including the cable car system. An error in the film has Bogart getting on an O'Farrell, Jones, and Hyde cable car but leaving a Powell Street car at Market Street, a trip which was not possible until ten years later when the two lines were combined into the Powell–Hyde line.
[edit] Plot
Convicted murderer Vincent Parry (Bogart) escapes from San Quentin prison and is picked up and sheltered by Irene Jansen (Bacall), an artist with an interest in his case. Helped by a friendly cabbie, Sam (Tom D'Andrea), Parry gets a new face from a plastic surgeon thereby enabling him to dodge the authorities and find his wife's real murderer. He has difficulty staying hidden at Irene's. This is because Madge Rapf (Agnes Moorehead), the spiteful woman whose testimony sent him up to prison, keeps stopping by.
[edit] Main cast
- Humphrey Bogart Vincent Parry
- Lauren Bacall Irene Jansen
- Bruce Bennett Bob
- Agnes Moorehead Madge Rapf
- Tom D'Andrea Cabby (Sam)
- Clifton Young Baker
