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Passage to Marseille, also known as Message to Marseille, is a 1944 American war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Passage to Marseille: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn. Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
During World War II, a French ship finds five men drifting in a small boat. Once aboard, the men tell the ship's captain, Patain Malo (Victor Francen), that they are convicts who escaped prison ...
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At the outbreak of war Freycinet takes passage on the Ville de Nancy, under Captain Malo (Victor Francen), bound for Marseilles with a cargo of nickel ore. There are three cabin passengers, including a French army officer, Major Duval ( Sydney Greenstreet ).
Following a band of political prisoners who have escaped from the horrific confines of Devil's Island to fight the Nazi invasion, Passage to Marseille (1944) is a rather unconventional film for Warner Brothers director Michael Curtiz.
Overview. A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny. Michael Curtiz. Director. Charles Nordhoff. Novel. James Norman Hall. Novel. Jack Moffitt.
The film opens as French liason officer Freycinet (Claude Rains), stationed in London, tells Mantrac's story to a British reporter (John Loder). Freycinet reveals that Mantrac, happily married to Paula (Michele Morgan), was framed by pro-fascists and sentenced to Devil's Island.
Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart stars as a French patriot who sacrifices almost everything to fight for his country's freedom in Passage
As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devil's Island, he and four others escape.
Aug 2, 2018 · Passage to Marseille is a real surprise. Screenwriters Casey Robinson and Jack Moffit, adapting a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, have created a complex story about the Free French Air Corps, a squadron of French patriots who escaped the Nazi-occupied country to carry out operations from a secret base in England.
