September 16th is the late, great Lauren Bacall's centennial birthday. She is also TCM's Star of the Month & Monday nights in September are for Bacall's deep-brewed film flavah! Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall bring their trademark charisma & credibility to the stylish, but improbable "Dark Passage." This one airs on TCM at 12 a.m./ET. The 1947 WB suspense film has stellar San Francisco location filming, supporting cast, and production values. But the plot, with Bogie as a prison escapee on the lam and looking for his wife's real killer, is one absurd coincidence after another. My take here:
Bogie & Bacall team for very stylish but absurd storytelling, "Dark Passage," from 1947
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 18, 2024 12:22 PM |
Agnes Morehead steals the picture.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 16, 2024 1:29 AM |
This was the first noir I ever saw. It's hugely entertaining.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 16, 2024 1:49 AM |
"Dark Passage" is also on Tubi...
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 16, 2024 12:09 PM |
We had it all - just like Bogie & Bacall
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 16, 2024 12:14 PM |
I love first person noir movies like this one starts out as.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 16, 2024 12:38 PM |
R1 is right, it’s Aggie’s movie. Casting her as a film noir nymphomaniac was as unlikely as it was an act of genius. When Bogart implies he has heard all about her and she puts a pillow down and kneels on it, it’s as close to suggesting a blowjob as any movie would have dared to do then.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 16, 2024 1:14 PM |
Dark Passage had a lot of location shooting, for a film of its time. Here's a nifty video, showing the locations then and now...
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 16, 2024 2:45 PM |
Bacall looked like Marilyn's mother by the time of How To Marry A Millionaire
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 16, 2024 6:39 PM |
I love love love her apartment!! I loved Geiger’s bungalow in The Big Sleep too. Odd two Bogart/Bacall movies would have the most memorable sets for me.
Also the line about “have a fight with the little woman?”
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 16, 2024 8:29 PM |
“I’ll get cigarettes”
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 17, 2024 6:47 AM |
Both are upstaged by Endora from Bewitched.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 17, 2024 11:23 AM |
Also the line about “have a fight with the little woman?”
Is the line said by the two men that see the bandaged Bogie climbing steps after his surgery? I thought the line was "Have a rough night?"
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 17, 2024 10:01 PM |
The idea that Madge would kill herself rather than confess to the murders seems a bizarre choice. But I guess she is already shown to be a nutjob.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 17, 2024 10:03 PM |
Agnes steals the movie with just 3 scenes!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 17, 2024 10:56 PM |
"Is that candy for me?" I've lost count how may times I've seen this film.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 18, 2024 1:20 AM |
It's on Tubi. I've watched this several times for the Moorehead performance. Total mastery of her voice and the expressions in her face.
Bacall looks beautiful but is only OK in her role, Moorehead steals the film from everyone
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 18, 2024 1:48 AM |
I like Bacall, but there were always scene stealing supporting/co-starring actresses in her movies: Martha Vickers and Dorothy Malone in The Big Sleep, Aggie in Dark Passage, Claire Trevor in Key Largo, Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb, Dolores Gray in Designing Women, and Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind. No wonder Betty Bacall had to give up caffeine!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 18, 2024 12:22 PM |