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'''Dark Passage''' (1947) is a Warner Bros. film noir directed by Delmer Daves and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film is based on the novel by David Goodis. It was the third of four films real-life couple Bacall and Bogart made together.
Franz Waxman's main title music for this movie is the same theme used in ''To Have and Have Not'' (1944), for which he was uncredited. This film, like ''Lady in the Lake'' released a year earlier, employs a subjective camera technique in which the viewer sees the action through Bogart's eyes. At the time of the release of ''Dark Passage'', Bogart was Hollywood's highest paid actor, making more than $450,000 a year .

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Shooting Location

Plot

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Shooting Location

Parts of the movie were filmed on location in San Francisco, California, including the cable car system. An error in the film has Bogart getting on an ''O'Farrell, Jones, and Hyde'' cable car but leaving a ''Powell Street'' car at Market Street, a trip which was not possible until ten years later when the two lines were combined into the ''Powell–Hyde'' line.

Plot

Convicted murderer Vincent Parry (Bogart) escapes from San Quentin prison and is picked up and sheltered by Irene Jansen (Bacall), an artist with an interest in his case. Helped by a friendly cabbie, Sam (Tom D'Andrea), Parry gets a new face from a plastic surgeon thereby enabling him to dodge the authorities and find his wife's real murderer. He has difficulty staying hidden at Irene's. This is because Madge Rapf (Agnes Moorehead), the spiteful woman whose testimony sent him up to prison, keeps stopping by.

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★ Film Noir of the Week review

★ Imdb for Dark Passage