I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Watched Dark Passage with Bogart and Bacall the other night (innocent man convicted of killing his wife escapes prison, tries to prove he's not guilty). What struck me this time (because I've seen this movie, like many of the classics, many times over), was how a movie made in the 1940s had, as an underlying message, intentionally or not, that justice doesn't always prevail in this country, that sometime the innocent go to jail, and the guilty are never proved to be guilty. A plot that is based on an imperfect justice system, and in a country where truth doesn't always triumph, isn't something I wouldn't think I'd find in a movie made during this more patriotic period in our country's history. I would have expected (and probably did the first time I saw the movie) that Bogart's character would have proven his innocent in the end. It is a bit of shock that -- as true as it may be in real life -- in the movie the good guy is not able to set the record straight. But it's not a depressing movie for two reasons. One is that there are so many people -- most total strangers to him -- that try to help him: the taxi driver who takes him the plastic surgeon, the surgeon himself, his old one and true friend, and, of course, Bacall's character, a woman's whose own father suffered the injustice of the justice system and ended up died in prison. Improbable as it is that these people would aid and abet a convicted murderer, it's comforting to have the movie show that, even though the system may not always work, you can count on people to both know the truth and to go to great lengths to help you. It's also not a depressing movie because we are treated to a happy ending. Though he'll never be free of guilt in this country, he does find happiness -- and with the girl -- in Peru. And that was the other surprise message that struck me this time viewing the movie - that a 1940s movie would show you that happiness can actually be found in a country other than the good old USA.

One of the worst noir movies I've ever seen. Annoying beginning SPOILER where you can't see Bogie's face for what seems like hours. Stupid plot, stupid plot developments, stupid stupid stupid. The only saving grace was Bacall in her prime, and Agnes Moorehead as vamp!. Don't waste your time.

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.

An escaped convict (Humphrey Bogart) undergoes plastic surgery and hides out with a pretty young woman (Lauren Bacall) while he tries to figure out who murdered his wife, the crime for which he was convicted. Excellent film noir written and directed by Delmer Daves with beautiful photography by Sid Hickox. It's the last film Bogie and Bacall did together and it's easily the most underrated of the three. Both are terrific here and have that same wonderful chemistry we all love, albeit with less sexy banter than their previous movies together. The real scene-stealer of the picture is Agnes Moorehead, who gets the juiciest role and one awesome scene in particular. Tom D'Andrea has a great bit as a talkative cabby and there are several other fine character actors in small roles.The first forty minutes or so is filmed mostly from a first person point-of-view. We don't see Bogart's face until over an hour in, after his character has had plastic surgery. A pretty gutsy move at the time to have your big star, Humphrey Bogart, heard but not seen for such a large chunk of the movie. But it's so well-done and effective, it's probably my favorite portion of the film. Another favorite part is a little bit of business referring to a famous line of Bogie's from a past film. That sort of thing is commonplace today but wasn't then. It's a funny part in a terrific script by Daves. The movie does meander some, usually for little moments with side characters. While many of these scenes aren't necessarily needed they add something extra to the picture that I enjoyed. Definitely a must-see for Bogie fans.