|
|
List Price: $19.98Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Now!
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569676824
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 33197
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 27, 1947
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Dark Passage Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen Vincent's lone ally. In a supporting role Agnes Moorehead portrays Madge a venomous harpy who finds pleasure in the unhappiness of others. The chemistry of the leads is undeniable and they augment it here with exceptional tenderness. Exceptional too are the atmospheric San Francisco locations and the imaginative camera work that shows Vincent's point of view - but not his face - until the bandages are removed. Lest Irene get ideas the post-surgery Vincent tells her: 'Don't change yours. I like it just as it is.' So do we. - 1947Running Time: 106 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569676824 Manufacturer No: 67682
Amazon.com essential video:
This gimmicky film noir stars Humphrey Bogart as an escaped criminal who undergoes plastic surgery and holes up at the home of Lauren Bacall's character while healing and preparing to prove his innocence. If you can last through the first half-hour of this thing--which is shot entirely from the subjective view of Bogart's bandaged face, which we don't see until later--you might find ample reason in the stars' performances to stick around for the conclusion. But director Delmer Daves (A Summer Place) tests a viewer's endurance with such an obvious, attention-getting ploy. The least of the Bogart-Bacall vehicles (The Big Sleep,To Have and Have Not, Key Largo). --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Romance is what gets me!
With characters dropping like flies, Bacall, blinded by love, refuses to believe what anybody would believe (and she's right!). The scene where he leaves, never to see her again is perfect. The call from the bus station, the way he stammers through his instructions. The scene in Pieta, Peru where they see each other and, without a word, she moves into his arms and they begin to dance. The convoluted plot twists and turns...but the romance of this movie is a beautiful thing.
Rating: - A mystery with a love affair
The man in the bandaged face, the taxi cab driver with the quickie
face job (plastic surgery) friend and the trash can escape from San Quentin.
I didn't know how frail and thin the tough guy Bogart was
until I saw this movie with older eyes. The acting, plot and 40's San Francisco made this very good viewing. The music wasn't as good
as some of these films, but there is a chemistry her
that time hasn't erased.
Rating:  - Bogie as a bandaged killer and Bacall the woman by his side
Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) has just escaped from San Quentin where he has been imprisoned for the murder of his wife. Vincent is innocent and wants to clear his name so once he is a free man he goes in search of the people who testified against him at his trial. However not only is he a convicted murderer but he is now a fugitive and the cops will be looking for him everywhere. After narrowly escaping after the man who picks him up a few miles from the prison tries to detain him after learning ... Read More
Rating: - Effective film noir
Dark Passage is less of a partnership between them than are other Bogart-Bacall movies .He is very much the star in this picture while she has a much less impactful role .This may be one reason that for all its qualities -and it has many-the movie lags a little way behind their other collaborations .
Bogart plays Vincent Parry who escapes from San Quentin whence he had been sent for the murder of his wife.He is picked up by Irene Jansen (Bacall) a woman long obsessed with the case and who believes ... Read More
Rating:  - Bad Bogart film
The premise of the film is very interesting. But this is the worst of the Bogart movies I've seen. This movie is badly written. Bogarts wise cracks are badly timed within the dialog- it seem the line should be funny within the context of the dialog, but the lines instead seem isolated from the tone and emotion, adding nothing to the scenes.
There are many problems with the editing. There are several places where they seemed to have ran out of film or had no pickup shots.
Hollywood should remake ... Read More
|
|
