Passion

Director: Allan Dwan

Overview

"Allan Dwan's Passion comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are neither subtitles nor closed-captions on this release. Supplemental materials include the original theatrical trail

Product Details

Release Date:	05/28/2002
UPC:	0089859828928
Original Release:	1954
Source:	VCI VIDEO
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:24:00
Sales rank:	45,493

Special Features

Original theatrical trailer; Actor biographies; Scene selection

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cornel Wilde	Juan Obreon
Yvonne DeCarlo	Rosa Melo / Tonya Melo
Raymond Burr	Captain Rodriguez
Lon Chaney	Castro,Castro
Rodolfo Acosta	Salvador Sandro,Salvador Sandro
John Qualen	Gaspar Melo
Anthony Caruso	Sgt. Munoz
Frank de Kova	Martinez
Peter Coe	Colfre
John Dierkes	Escobar
Richard Hale	Don Domingo
Rozene Kemper	Grandmother Melo
Belle Mitchell	Senora Carrisa
Alex Montoya	Manuel Felipe
Zon Murray	Barca
Rosa Turich	Maraquita
Stuart Whitman	Bernal Vaquaro
James Kirkwood	Don Rosendo
Robert Warwick	Money Lender
Louis Forbes	Composer
David Raksin	Composer

Technical Credits

Josef Leytes

Howard Estabrook

Beatrice A. Drescher

Benedict Bogeaus	Producer
Josef Leytes	Screenwriter
Howard Estabrook	Screenwriter
Beatrice A. Drescher	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Land Disputes [4:50]
2. Homecoming [4:29]
3. Marriage Plans [3:00]
4. Supplies [5:32]
5. No Witnesses [5:53]
6. That Voice! [3:03]
7. The Cantina [3:11]
8. Self Defense [5:32]
9. Vengeance [6:31]
10. The Hacienda [5:09]
11. Questions [2:54]
12. Hiding [4:01]
13. Don Rosendo [4:16]
14. Manuel Explains [4:29]
15. Hunting & Hunted [4:35]
16. Mountain Storm [5:08]
17. Carrying Sandro [2:13]
18. Last Confession [5:56]

Menu

Side #1 --
Play
Scene Select
Extras
Original Theatrical Trailer
Cornel Wilde Bio
Yvonne DeCarlo Bio
Raymond Burr Bio

Editorial Reviews

There's not really a lot of passion in Passion, a film that's really more about obsession and revenge. There's nothing wrong with obsession and revenge as the themes of a film, but unfortunately, Passion doesn't play either of these ideas in an interesting way. The screenplay gives us the outline of a potentially decent story; it's awfully familiar, but it has the basic ingredients that could make for an absorbing tale of vengeance. But the various credited screenwriters don't do much with the outline, other than provide dialogue that is alternately stilted and embarrassing. Director Allan Dwan is no more successful in bringing any real emotion out in the set-up, settling for stereotypical generic outbursts, but he does keep the pace up and he demonstrates his ability to take an ordinary right scene and imbue it with a little crackle. Stars Cornel Wilde and Yvonne de Carlo can't really do much with their clichéd parts, but they are certainly decorative. Even more decorative is the location lensing, which provides the film with its biggest asset. Not a terrible film, but on the whole not an especially memorable one.