| UPC: |
Disc: 055C-0CC4-5391-CCAA (DVD) |
| Region Coding: |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Production Year: |
1944 |
| Rating: |
NR |
| Running Time: |
109 min. |
| DVD Release: |
10/5/2010 |
| Case Type: |
THINpak |
| Video Formats: |
Full Frame 1.33:1 |
| Disc Formats: |
Single Sided, Dual Layered |
| SRP: |
$0.00 |
Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (Including co-stars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept Passage to Marseille. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps.
Passage sailed into theaters on stormy seas. Controversy surrounded the scene in which Matrac machine-guns the helpless survivors of a downed plane that had attacked the freighter. That a soldier of freedom (one played by Bogart, no less!) would act ignobly brought protests from religious and censorship groups. But, like Matrac facing a strafing dive-bomber, the studio held its ground. War could even dehumanize a hero. Domestic prints would remain uncut. |
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