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Movie Reviews of Dark Passage (Keepcase)
Movie Review: great service
Summary: 5 Stars
Product arrived in a timely fashion, in excellent condition (as advertised). I am very happy with my purchase and would buy from this seller again.Movie Review: Do not go easy into that dark night.
Summary: 5 Stars
One of their best movies, if you disregard the difficult subjective viewpoint of the camera in the first part of the movie.Movie Review: Classic Bogart - Bacall movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the series of classic Bogart-Bacall movies. Viewing them is a very enjoyable retro experience.Movie Review: Milder Bogart & Bacall Murder Mystery Film Noir!
Summary: 4 Stars
Post World War II murder mystery which is best known for its film experimentation that did not go over very well with the audiences of the day, Bogart plays an escaped convict, on the lam from San Quentin. A young woman heard he was on the loose from a radio broadcast and decided to go pick him up, but not before he slugs some guy who recognizes him (as he hitched a ride).... wow, just writing this review shows how intricate, yet such an easy story to follow.
The supporting cast really had depth and mystery attached: A cab driver who realizes who Vincent (Bogart) really is, hooks him up with a plastic surgeon, a now-disbarred doctor who performs plastic surgery on criminals as a sideline. The drug-induced delusions with the 5 lens view, maniacal laughter of the doctor is quite chilling.
Agnes Moorehead, more than what she seems, has it out with Vincent in a climatic, though a bit melodramatic confrontation with Vincent ....
The first person camera view did work to some degree in the beginning of the film but it's said that Jack Warner of Warner Bros. didn't like paying Bogart for only being seen in the last third of the film. Oops.
Not as intense as Big Sleep, moderate yet well-made, solid entertainment.
The DVD also had a Bugs Bunny cartoon (with Mel Blanc voice-overs) with Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart having cartoon images (several stars of the time as well). Trailer and some background info on Bogart's involvement with protesting the Committee of Unamerican Activities (anti-communist hysteria) gave a historical background to the film.
1940s San Francisco made a great backdrop, awesome photography.
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Movie Review: Let There Be Light
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a revue for the WB DVD release of the 1947 film, DARK PASSAGE.
DARK PASSAGE was taken from a novel by David Goodis and the film
has a screenplay credited to the director, Delmer Daves.
DARK PASSAGE is the third screen collaboration between Humphrey Bogart and
Lauren Bacall, the leading romantic couple on and off screen in 1940s Hollywood.
Vincent Parry, a convicted murderer is aided in his prison escape by a chance
meeting with Irene Jansen, who risks virtually everything she has, including her
freedom, to help a man she doesn't really know.
Parry, because of a chance meeting with a sympatico cab driver gets a tip on
where to go for effective plastic surgery and after a week of being bandaged up,
gains a new appearance, looking much like Humphrey Bogart.
Up until this point in the film, we haven't seen Vincent Parry except for newspaper
photos because director Delmer Daves uses the subjective camera technique.
All we see is what Vincent Parry sees, up until the part of the film when his
plastic surgery bandages are removed and then DARK PASSAGE goes on to become
a fairly conventional noirish forties crime film.
The subjective camerawork is well done and there is a reason for it, we are
not supposed to see the Bogartian face until the surgery is healed. But the
real trouble with this film is the coincidence laden story, after a while
suspension of disbelief is hard to keep afloat when one incident of coincidence
after another occurs.
DARK PASSAGE has many fine performances, including those by Bogart and Bacall, Agnes Morehead, Tom Dandrea, Bruce Bennett and quite a few others. Also some really nice
San Francisco 1940s locations. This is really my kind of movie but too many coincidences spoil the story broth.
This DVD has some nice extras as well, a featurette entitled "Hold Your Breath And
Cross Your Fingers: The Story Of Dark Passage" as well as a Bogartian Bugs
Bunny cartoon, "Slick Hare." The DVD has subtitles in English, French, Spanish,
Porturgese,Japanese, Chinese, Bahasa, Thai and Korean.