Category: Film-Noir
All Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller
Release Year: 1947
Country: USA
Runtime: 106
Rating: 7.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Delmer Daves
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

  • Two Of A Kind ! Tough . . . Torrid . . . Terrific !
  • IN DANGER AS VIOLENT AS THEIR LOVE!!! (one-sheet poster)
  • TOGETHER AGAIN! (original one-sheet poster)


    • Writing by: Delmer Daves – (screenplay)
    David Goodis – (novel "Dark Passage")

    Produced by: Jerry Wald – producer
    Jack L. Warner – executive producer

    Cast: Humphrey Bogart – Vincent Parry
    Lauren Bacall – Irene Jansen
    Bruce Bennett – Bob
    Agnes Moorehead – Madge Rapf
    Tom DAndrea – Cabby (Sam)
    Clifton Young – Baker
    Douglas Kennedy – Detective
    Rory Mallinson – George Fellsinger
    Houseley Stevenson – Dr. Walter Coley
    John Alvin – Blackie (uncredited)
    John Arledge – Lonely man (uncredited)

    Music: Franz Waxman Max Steiner
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    Plot Outline: Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence…
    Plot: 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 Bogarts-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 hes really after is revenge.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Outtakes are shown alongside the ending credits.

    Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, part of the canvas over the truck is attached. Next shot it is all free.

    Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • When Vincent reads the newspaper clipping about Irenes father, the accompanying photograph of her father is that of director/screenwriter Delmer Daves.
    • Franz Waxmans 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.
    • Warner Bros. paid $25,000 for the rights to the David Goodis novel, which was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from 20 July-September 7, 1946.