Dark Passage [Blu-ray]

Director: Delmer Daves

Overview

In this film, Humphrey Bogart heads the cast as an escaped convict, wrongly accused of his wife's murder. With the help of friendly cabbie Tom D'Andrea, Bogart makes contact with sympathetic plastic surgeon Housley Stevenson. With his new face, Bogart seeks out the actual murderer.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/17/2016
UPC:	0888574319786
Original Release:	1947
Rating:	NR
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:46:00
Sales rank:	20,187

Special Features

Hold your breath and cross your fingers; Slick Hare: vintage Bugs Bunny short; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Humphrey Bogart	Vincent Parry
Lauren Bacall	Irene Jansen
Bruce Bennett	Bob
Agnes Moorehead	Madge Rapf
Tom D'Andrea	Sam
Clifton Young	Baker
Douglas Kennedy	Detective
Rory Mallinson	George Fellsinger
Houseley Stevenson	Dr. Walter Coley
Bob Farber	Policeman
Richard Walsh	Policeman
Clancy Cooper	Man on Street
Pat McVey	Taxi Driver,Taxi Driver
Dude Maschemeyer	Man on Street
Tom Fadden	Waiter in Cafe
Shimen Ruskin	Driver-Watchman
Tom Reynolds	Hotel Clerk
Lennie Bremen	Ticket Clerk
Mary Field	Mary, the Lonely Woman
Michael Daves	Child,Child
John Alvin	Blackie
John Arledge	Lonely Man
Ross Ford	Ross
Ian MacDonald	Policeman
Luigi Pistilli	Fausto
Ramon Ros	Waiter
Anita Bolster	Woman
Craig Lawrence	Bartender
Yannick De Lulle	Michele Martin

Technical Credits

Delmer Daves

Delmer Daves	Screenwriter
Jerry Wald	Producer
H.F. Koenekamp	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

This sturdy 1947 noir makes great use of its economical script, its San Francisco location shots, and its leads' well-established sexual chemistry. The winding hills, world-famous bridges, and prison proximity of the Bay Area are integral to the story, while the city's non-geographical features (its mixture of affluence and squalor, misfits and money men) provides plenty of fuel for the film's shadowy atmosphere. Humphrey Bogart inhabits his tight-lipped everyman, Vincent Parry, with typical aplomb, even in the first act when he's only a voice. Lauren Bacall, meanwhile, plays it more vulnerable than in To Have and Have Not, her lonely heiress acting out oedipal redemption scenarios that give the real-life couple's unlikely screen pairing more verisimilitude than usual. Character actors Bruce Bennett, Tom D'Andrea, and Houseley Stevenson turn in top-notch work as the friends both new and old who help Parry establish his new identity, while the performer who plays the villain (and will not be disclosed here) does a powerhouse job. Overseen by veteran writer/director Delmer Daves, Dark Passage is a less crowd-pleasing but darkly seductive entry in the Bogie and Bacall canon.