Dark Passage (1947) Reviews & Ratings

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Dark Passage reviews

Dark Passage holds a 7.3/10 average from 363 TMDB ratings.

Dark Passage, light journey. *** This review may contain spoilers *** Vincent Parry has been imprisoned in San Quentin for murdering his wife, he escapes at sets about clearing his name. After being picked up, and then hidden by Irene Jansen (who has followed his case closely), Parry gets a tip from a cab driver which leads him to an underground plastic surgeon. After being given a new face, Parry must keep away fro…
— John Chard (7/10)

Humphrey Bogart spends at least half of Dark Passage heard but not seen. When the movie isn’t shot from his point of view – little more than a gimmick in any day and age, though I guess in 1947 it might have had the benefit of novelty; sort of like a first-person shooter long before first-person shooters –, Bogie’s face is either a shadowy silhouette or wrapped in bandages. The latter is the result of a back-alley p…
— tmdb28039023 (2/10)

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

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