History Film / DarkPassage

''Dark Passage'' is a 1947 FilmNoir directed by Delmer Daves, based on a novel by David Goodis.

''Dark Passage''^ is a 1947 FilmNoir directed by Delmer Daves, based on a novel by David Goodis.

'''''Dark Passage''''' is a 1947 FilmNoir directed by Delmer Daves, based on a novel by David Goodis.

''Dark Passage'' is a 1947 FilmNoir directed by Delmer Daves, based on a novel by David Goodis.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Madge.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Vincent is unable to prove that Madge killed his wife and George. Madge confesses to the murders, but then jumps to her death, and Vincent is forced to leave the country. Vincent narrowly escapes being seen by a police officer who had previously tried to arrest him for being suspicious, and is forced to live as a fugitive in South America. The only perk is that Irene manages to join him in hiding.]]

The original novel was part of a lawsuit involving David Goodis and the creators of ''TheFugitive'', which Goodis alleged shamelessly ripped off the plot of his novel. The litigation dragged on for years, finally reaching a settlement after Goodis and his brother (the executor of his estate) were both dead and the case became merely a nuisance suit.

Dark Passage is a 1947 FilmNoir directed by Delmer Daves, based on a novel by David Goodis.

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Dark Passage is a 1947 FilmNoir directed by Delmer Daves, based on a novel by David Goodis.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer completely leaves out the first person perspective segments, save one, of the first act. This leads the viewer to believe that it's a straight Bogart-Bacall film.

* FemmeFatale: Madge Rapf, who [[spoiler: killed Vincent's wife just so she could have him. And when he rejected her, she perjured herself in court to send him to jail for murder. Later, when he got out, she killed his best friend so Vincent would have no one to turn to]].

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer completely leaves out the first person perspective segments, save one, of the first act. This leads the viewer to believe that it's a straight Bogart-Bacall film noir.

The plot follows Vincent Parry (HumphreyBogart), falsely convicted of murdering his wife, as he escape prison and sets out to clear his name. He is aided in this effort by Irene Jansen (LaurenBacall), who picks up Vincent by the side of the road as he was making his escape and chooses to help him in further endeavours because his case is exactly like her father's, although unlike Vincent, her father died in prison. In order to avoid being recognised by the police, who have a massive dragnet out for him, Parry changes his facial features with the aid of a plastic surgeon and a friendly cab driver.

* MarqueeAlterEgo: For the first act, the protagonist is played by Bogart (via voiceover) but the character looks like someone entirely different (we only see his picture in the paper), Then he gets MagicPlasticSurgery in order to look like Humphrey Bogart and he stays that way for the rest of the film.

* MarqueeAlterEgo: For the first act, the protagonist is played by Bogart but the character looks like someone entirely different (we only see his picture in the paper), Then he gets MagicPlasticSurgery in order to look like Humphrey Bogart and he stays that way for the rest of the film.

The original novel was part of a lawsuit involving David Goodis and the creators of TheFugitive. Goodis alleged that The Fugitive shamelessly ripped off the plot of his novel. The litigation dragged on for years, finally reaching a settlement after Goodis and his brother (the executor of his estate) were both dead and the case became merely a nuisance suit.

* MarqueeAlterEgo: For the first act, the protagonist is played by Bogart but the character looks like someone entirely different (we only see his picture in the paper), Then he gets plastic surgery in order to look like Humphrey Bogart and he stays that way for the rest of the film.

The original novel was part of a lawsuit involving David Goodis and the creators of TheFugitive. Goodis alleged that The Fugitve shamelessly ripped off the plot of his novel. The litigation dragged on for years, finally reaching a settlement after Goodis and his brother (the executor of his estate) were both dead and the case became merely a nuisance suit.