Dark Passage (1947) is a Warner Bros. film noir directed by Delmer Davis and stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film is based on the novel by David Goodis. Dark Passage would be the third of four films real-life husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. 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." When this movie was released, Bogart was Hollywood's highest paid actor, making more than $450,000 a year.

Plot

Convicted murder 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 cabble, 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, the spiteful woman whose testimony sent him up to prison (Agnes Moorehead) keeps stopping by.

Main Cast

• Humphrey Bogart Vincent Parry
• Lauren Bacall Irene Jansen
• Bruce Bennett Bob
• Agnes Moorehead Madge Rapf
• Tom D'Andrea Cabby (Sam)
• Clifton Young Baker