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Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis. 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 ...
Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on- and off-screen personnel of the earlier Warner Bros. classic. Unfolded in a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, this is the story of Matrac (Humphrey Bogart), a freedom-loving French journalist who sacrifices ...
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A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny. Michael Curtiz. Director. Charles Nordhoff. Novel. James Norman Hall. Novel. Casey Robinson.
Passage to Marseille is a 1944 American World War II adventure movie directed by Michael Curtiz and was 1942 novel Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It stars Humphrey Bogart , Claude Rains , Michèle Morgan , Philip Lorre , George Tobias , Sydney Greenstreet , Helmut Dantine , Victor Francen and was ...
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 ...
Passage to Marseille's flashback within a flashback format is of course structurally weak, but its characters and storytelling are compelling. Most interesting is the cynical disillusionment Bogart's character experiences after his opposition newspaper confronts the French government's Nazi appeasement.
