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Plot

Robert Montgomery's 1946 film Lady in the Lake attempted to tell the entire story with a "subjective camera": shooting the film from the point of view of the main character, with the camera acting as his "eyes". The first hour or so of Dark Passage does the same thing--and the results are far more successful than anything seen in Montgomery's film. Humphrey Bogart heads the cast as an escaped convict, wrongly accused of his wife's murder. After being forced to beat up a man (Clifton Young) from whom he's hitched a ride, Bogart hides out in the apartment of Lauren Bacall, while recovering from plastic surgery, and tries to set about locating the actual murderer.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
107min.
Theatrical Release Date:
03/13/1998
DVD Release Date:
11/04/2003
Distributor(s):
Warner Brothers
Director(s):
Delmer Daves
Starring:
Humphrey Bogart , Lauren Bacall , Herman Brix , Agnes Moorehead , Tom D'Andrea
Themes:
Amateur Sleuths,Haunted By the Past,Out For Revenge
Tone:
Atmospheric,Gloomy,Moody,Nocturnal
Keywords:
captive,captor,convict,escape,false-accusation,frame-up,identity,investigation,killing,murder,plastic-surgery,prison,prison-rescue
Language:
English