Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Eric266 I love Bogey and Becall, but this is, by far, their weakest collaboration. The whole film felt disjointed to me. None of the characters' motivations made much sense and the "mystery" of the plot was too thin and uninterested.Bogart is Vincent, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. He's recently escaped and needs to prove his innocence. Bacall is Irene, a woman who helps him for the very thinnest of reasons. Agnes Moorehead (Bewitched) is Madge, a former lover of Vincent's who is also a friend of Irene's. Bob (Bruce Bennett) is a current "friend" of Irene's although its not really clear just how friendly they are. Clifton Young is a creepy guy named Baker who tries to capitalize on Vincent's predicament. Finally, Rory Mallison is Vincent's only real friend, George.Most of the scenes are through Vincent's eyes so you never see what Vincent looks like. He decides to get plastic surgery to change his appearance and, lo and behold, he looks like Humphrey Bogart. The plot device was poorly handled, but it was better than its use in Lady in the Lake. As I said earlier, the plot was very weak. I never got a feel that Irene's reasons for helping Vincent made a lot of sense. The search for the real killer was not very interesting and its ultimate reveal was anti-climatic. Bob is a throw away character who seems present just to give you another character to think about as the killer. Madge is over-the-top and unconvincing as someone Vincent would be interested in. Baker is an interesting guy, but he too is such a dolt, that his plans are pretty dumb. Mallison is good as Vincent's friend, George, and I wish they could have had more scenes together as Bogart and Mallison had some good chemistry, but it wasn't developed so you never really felt their comaraderie. Lastly, the fact that Vincent, Irene, and Madge all run in the same circles, but Vincent and Irene did not know each other was a bit too coincidental for my taste. It actually would have advanced the plot, in my opinion, if they did know each other prior to the events of the film. There was absolutely zero chemistry between Bogart and Bacall in this movie. Odd, since they were married at the time and would be so good together a year later in Key Largo. I'm gonna put this on the director Delmer Daves because the movie felt completely awkward from start to finish. As a lover of film noir, this was a disappointing entry in the genre.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Dark Passage" (1947)Warner Bros. presents Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in their third collaboration in a crime-drama with ingredients of mystery, while the leading man must act under heavy facial bandages to get supported by his wife into finding a new life from being an imprisoned convict for murder, when "Dark Passage" can only be enjoyed for the two Hollywood stars sake in an otherwise suspense-lacking attempt of stark-noir "hard-boiled" motion picture of the 1940s.© 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Ross622 Delmer Daves' "Dark Passage" is a very good movie that is very similar to "The Fugitive" (1993) in terms of the story-line but has some different aspects as well, this is one of the best film noir type films that I have seen along with "The Big Heat" (1953), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "White Heat" (1949), "The Big Sleep" (1946) and as well as many others. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as Vincent Parry a man who is convicted for murdering his wife and ends up escaping from prison and is on the run from police in order to prove his innocence. Parry then meets a woman named Irene Jansen (Lauren Bacall) who tries to help him prove his innocence. Then during the movie Parry seeks a doctor's appointment to seek plastic surgery in order to change his appearance with Dr. Walter Coley (Houseley Stevenson). The first forty minutes of the movie are the most interesting 40 minutes I have ever seen in a film since those shots are from Parry's perspective. Then towards the end of the movie we see Parry and Jansen and her neighbor Madge (Agnes Moorehead) scream as if he actually killed somebody when he actually didn't. The movie was the third of four movies that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall would do together (the fourth was John Huston's "Key Largo" (1948)). The chemistry between Bogart and Bacall was so good in this movie just like it was in their previous film "The Big Sleep" from the previous year and was directed by Howard Hawks. Delmer Daves' direction and his screenplay is executed for the film like an Alfred Hitchcock movie but much less suspenseful. But it was still was a very good movie to watch and is one of 1947's best films, and it kept me on the edge of my seat as well.

evanston_dad "Dark Passage" is an example of how a gimmick can work wonders.Humphrey Bogart plays an escaped con who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife -- of course he was wrongfully accused....he's Bogie! To evade the law, he enlists the help of a shady plastic surgeon to give him a new face. While he's waiting for his face to heal, he's nursed by none other than Lauren Bacall, fetching as hell as a do-gooder who wants to help him because her own father was similarly wrongfully accused of a crime. The gimmick is that we don't see Bogie's face for the first half of the movie. Much of the film is shot in first-person perspective except for the occasional establishing shot. Once his face is in bandages, the film switches to a more omniscient perspective, but we still don't get a glimpse of that hang-dog mug until the bandages come off.After Bogie becomes Bogie again, he sets out to solve the mystery of his wife's true murderer, which brings Agnes Moorehead into the picture, absolutely sensational as a shrill harridan with whom Bogie has some history. Moorehead steals the picture simply by being on the screen, a considerable feat given the screen presence of Bogie and the visual sizzle of Bacall.The first half of "Dark Passage" is effectively eerie; the first-person camera work really adds to the atmosphere, and Bogart's bandaged visage lends a creepiness to things. The second half is more conventional in terms of filmmaking, but by then the engaging plot and the presence of Moorehead have successfully filled in for what the film loses in visual interest."Dark Passage" is a real winner.Grade: A