Dark Passage Overview:

Dark Passage (1947) was a Film Noir - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Jack L. Warner and Jerry Wald.

SYNOPSIS

Bogart and Bacall headline a wild tale of an escapee from a San Quentin murder sentence who has his face surgically altered to allow him the freedom to find his wife's real killer. Now a man without a past, he meets a sultry stranger willing to put him up until his face heals and they can solve the mystery.

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Film Noir Review: Dark Passage (1947) Is Bogie & Bacall’s Unsung Classic

By Danilo Castro on May 29, 2019 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

?It’s wonderful when guys like you lose out. Makes guys like me think maybe we got a chance in this world.? Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall remain one of the most famous couples in Hollywood history. Between the former?s gruff cynicism and the latter?s razor-sharp wit, they were an ideal ... Read full article


Prisioneiro do Passado / Dark Passage (1947)

By L? on Dec 5, 2016 From Critica Retro

Prisioneiro do Passado / Dark Passage (1947) Bogie e Bacall, juntos novamente, na vida e nas telas. O belo e talentoso casal fez quatro filmes juntos, e o noir “Prisioneiro do Passado” ? o terceiro deles. N?o ? t?o rom?ntico e cheio de flertes quanto “Uma Aventura na Martini... Read full article


Warner Archive Blu-ray: Bogie and Bacall in Dark Passage (1947)

By KC on Jul 8, 2016 From Classic Movies

The four film partnership between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall worked because the growing affection they felt for each other off-screen translated so well to the characters they played. That love is most evident in Dark Passage (1947), which despite all its bitterness and hard edges is also an ... Read full article


THE 1947 BLOGATHON: DARK PASSAGE

By Crystal Kalyana on Jul 14, 2015 From In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood

This is my first contribution for the 1947 blogathon, hosted by Speakeasy and Shadows And Satin. Check out the other entries being exhibited during the event?here! When discussing the decades?of cinema, 1939, has always been considered to be the greatest year for movies, and that is indeed correct,... Read full article


Classic Films in Focus: DARK PASSAGE (1947)

By Jennifer Garlen on Jun 24, 2015 From Virtual Virago

Delmer Daves' Dark Passage (1947) is the third picture to pair Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who had become Mr. and Mrs. Bogart in 1945, after their steamy introduction to one another and the world in To Have and Have Not (1944). Dark Passage is not as celebrated as that first film or The Big S... Read full article


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Quotes from

Baker: I got the license number. I always had a good head for figures.
Vincent Parry: My only interest in your head is how easy it'll crack open.


Madge Rapf: I've cried myself to sleep at night because of you. She's got you now. She wants you very badly doesn't she? She's willing to run away with you and keep on running and ruin everything for herself. But she wouldn't care because she'd be with you and that's what she wants. Well she doesn't have you now. She'll never have you. Nobody will ever have you! And that's the way I want it! You're nothing but an escaped convict. Nobody knows what you wrote down. They'll believe me! They'll believe me!


Baker: I learned some things that even I never knew before.


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Facts about

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.
The first film in which Humphrey Bogart wore a full hairpiece.
When Vincent reads the newspaper clipping about Irene's father, the accompanying photograph of her father is that of director/screenwriter Delmer Daves.
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