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Dark Passage

United States

1947

106 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
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DIR Delmer Daves

EXEC Jack L. Warner

PROD Jerry Wald

SCR Delmer Daves, David Goodis

DP Sidney Hickox

CAST Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy, Rory Mallinson, Houseley Stevenson

ED David Weisbart

MUSIC Franz Waxman

Synopsis

Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart’s-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he’s really after is revenge. —IMDb

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Spencer Draper

27Feb13

Somewhere in Peru Bogie and Bacall dance forevermore.

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Alex Denison

27Jan13

I wasn't convinced of Lauren Bacall's acting capacities until now. This is kind of an amazing film in its own subtle ways

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chanandre

20Dec12

the pov shots are superb and the dream sequence too. and how great is to see bogart and bacall close-ups on a silver screen? amazing!

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    João Pedro Tomás

    7Feb13

    este filme colocou-me em rota de colisão com o plano subjectivo, inevitavelmente que chegarei a ter uma ideia bacana que envolva tal artifício...

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    chanandre

    9Feb13

    meaning não gostámos? pena. um dos melhores exemplos de POV que eu conheço.

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    João Pedro Tomás

    11Feb13

    empreguei a expressão "rota de colisão" mal. queria dizer que este filme foi o meu exemplo paradigmático do uso de plano subjectivo no cinema, daí a possibilidade de um dia escrever algo no género...

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Nelson Núñez

13Dec12

No llega a las alturas de El Sueño Eterno, pero me gustó más que Cayo Largo. El uso de la cámara subjetiva me pareció audaz y sorprendente (durante los primeros 37 minutos nunca vemos el rostro del protagonista de la historia). Agnes Moorehead hace una actuación notable en plan de mujer mezquina y resentida.

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By Sudarsh​an R. on October 23, 2009

It’s shot in San Francisco, has a murder mystery at it’s centre and has a surreal dreamy quality. Delmer Daves got there before Hitchcock in 1947 with this visually ebullient story of a man in search…  read review

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