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Release Date: 1944
Cast: Peter Lorre, Peter Miles, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Loder, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, Michèle Morgan, Victor Francen, Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, George Tobias ...MORE
Cast: Peter Lorre, Peter Miles, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Loder, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, Michèle Morgan, Victor Francen, Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, George Tobias, Claude Rains ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, War Film, Escape Film, Drama Film
Passage to Marseille is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe.
The film reunited much of the cast of Casablanca (1942), also directed by Curtiz, including Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Helmut Dantine. Michèle Morgan (who had... MORE
Passage to Marseille is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe.
The film reunited much of the cast of Casablanca (1942), also directed by Curtiz, including Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Helmut Dantine. Michèle Morgan (who had been the original choice for Casablanca), Victor Francen, Philip Dorn and George Tobias are also featured.
It is one of the few films to use a flashback within a flashback within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an airbase in England during World War II. Free French Captain Freycinet (Claude Rains) tells a journalist the story of the French pilots stationed there.
This opens into the first flashback, set on the tramp steamer Ville de Nancy just before the defeat of France by the Germans. Five convicts are found adrift in a small canoe LESS
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