Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Mr-Fusion You've gotta admit, it's a bold move to get Humphrey Bogart in your movie and then not show his face for half of it. But that's also what hurts "Dark Passage", to some extent. The first person views during those scenes, while innovative in 1947, really sap the life out of the movie. It's left to Lauren Bacall and Agnes Moorehead to liven it up. But things are off all over the place; the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, the writing. The best characters in the movie is the city of San Francisco; the locations are the highlight.It's not a bad movie, it just did nothing for me.5/10

Richard Dominguez The Great Duo Of Lauren Bacall And Humphrey Bogart Together Again I This Great Suspense Filled Movie ... The Movie Starts With Humphrey Narrating The Movie As Well As Us Seeing Everything From His POV, A Brilliant Idea So That We Don't Know What Vincent Perry (Escaped Convict/Bogart) Looks Like ... Bogart Is Brilliant (When Isn't He) In The Role Of A Man Desperate To Prove His Innocence ... Bacall As Always Beautiful, Tough And Dependable Is A Marvel (When Isn't She) In Her Role As The Trusting "In Love" Woman ... This Like "Any" Bogart Movie Is Excellent In It's Execution And Detail .. A Must Watch For Any Fan Of The Film Noir Genre Or Bogart Movie

elvircorhodzic DARK PASSAGE is melodramatic romantic thriller, which in the first part we look through the eyes of the main character. The story has its drawbacks or rather continuous decline in the dynamics and struggles with a lack of tension. Set and Bogart performance elements of this film that I would call very good.The film is all developed separately. Nothing much is interwoven in the noir themes. The manhunt, romance and eventually obviously dismissal mysteries. Bogart's character is definitely stiff. It is interesting to hear his voice, and not see it. Unfortunately, he was in that part got the most space. The film which lacks action. Incidents are present, but quickly go limp. Climaxes almost non-existent.Humphrey Bogart as Vincent Parry, his appearance for the first time was not so impressive. The obvious failure. Bogart always bring a good performance, but I repeat, it was interesting to watch the movie from his perspective. Bogart's eye.Lauren Bacall as Irene Jansen won the space with the main actor. In scenes with Bogart she is pretty good. Simply work. If she focused it can be called a good chemistry.Agnes Moorehead as Madge Rapf is fast becoming the main villain, perhaps by mistake. It brings the most energy in the film and is quite intrusive character.Solid film in which experimentation and lost in some basic segments.

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