In the beginning of the movie, part of the canvas over the truck is attached.
Next shot it is all free.
When Vincent Parry is holding the gun on Bake beneath the Golden Gate bridge near the end of the movie, Baker's hands are alternately open/closed between shots.
Vincent Parry wore his bandages on his face for over two weeks but only had about two days of beard growth.
The human male beard would grow about 3/4 to a inch in over two weeks on average for a man like Parry.
After Parry's bandages are removed, there are no stitches, bruises or facial swelling that always accompany plastic surgery.
Blackmailer advises Parry to escape to Mexico via a small Arizona town near border called Benton.
Actual town is named Benson.
In the diner, a sign on the wall for the ham special says it includes "potatoes - salad - drink - and 'desert.
'" (not 'dessert').
- PLOTWhile Vincent Parry's face is changed by plastic surgery, his recognizable voice is never an issue.
Parry is wearing a wedding band when he gets out of Irene's car, and a sleeve to a suit, not jail stuff.
I'd still give the movie 8 out of 10, but I found it a bit disappointing in its full-length version that is now available on an excellent Warner Video DVD. One of the problems is that none of the characters are particularly credible or even sympathetic.
This is a good movie which features an interesting performance by Humphrey Bogart. The first part of the story is told in the first person through Bogart's character, which is heard but not seen for reasons that have to do with the plot.
Humphrey Bogart made many great films during his prime time era of the 1940's. This being one of them, but it is very unusual in the stylistic direction of anything you have probably seen him in.
I forget the name of the scholar, but I recall some noir specialist or another claiming he had never ever seen a bad noir in his life. Cheap noir, perhaps, but never outright stinkers.
Not Bogart's best role but a great film nonetheless. Lauren Bacall was fascinating as always.
A wanted man tries to prove his innocence as he knocks about the streets of San Francisco.There's one noir scene that almost redeems this otherwise narrative mess.
Más que la historia en sí, la cual es interesante y llevadera, lo que más me quedó de esta película es su primera parte, donde el director utiliza en forma inteligente el plano subjetivo para meternos dentro de la historia como si fuésemos el personaje mismo interpretado por Humphrey Bogart.Es también magistral el uso de la cámara por parte de Delmer Daves, quien además demuestra en otros pasajes que tenía gran capacidad para la dirección y la puesta en escena, pues se nota que manejaba gran habilidad para desplegar con maestría el lenguaje cinematográfico al contarnos su historia con variedad de recursos técnicos muy llamativos para la época.
Dark Passage is the least highly regarded of the four movies that star Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together, but it's still one of my favorite works of film noir. I love how Bogart's character, who has escaped from San Quentin, is not shown until after he undergoes plastic surgery as a way of hiding from the police.
Delmer Daves directed this unusual thriller that stars Humphrey Bogart as escaped convict Vincent Parry, wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife, who tries to prove his innocence. He first gets a back-room face-lift to alter his appearance from the police, then changes his name to Alan Linell.
.jpg)
