Dark Passage Family Review

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well-known, and is forced to seek illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart's-eye-view, with the viewer seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he's really after is revenge.—Mark Thompson <[email protected]>Convicted murderer Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) breaks out of prison. He had been wrongfully convicted of the murder of his wife. Along the way he is helped by a young woman, Irene Jansen (Lauren Bacall) who is convinced of his innocence. Soon he has to make a decision between leaving the city or staying around to find out who the real murderer is. And his troubles are just beginning.—grantss