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Passage to Marseille
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| Passage to Marseille | |
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 Spanish film poster for Passage to Marseille |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner (executive producer) |
| Written by | Casey Robinson Jack Moffitt Sans patrie by Charles Nordhoff(novel) James Norman Hall(novel) |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Michèle Morgan Claude Rains Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Helmut Dantine |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Editing by | Owen Marks |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
| Release date(s) |  16 February 1944 |
| Running time | 109 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
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 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.
One of the only films to employ a flashback within a flashback within a flashback. The film opens in England during World War II. Captain Freycinet, a French officer (Claude Rains), is telling a story of the French pilots who serve at a particular airbase. This opens into the first flashback onboard the tramp steamer Ville de Nancy just before the German invasion of France. Five convicts are picked up, adrift in a small canoe. Taken aboard the tramp steamer, they tell the officer the story of their escape from the French prison colony at Cayenne in French Guiana, which begins the next flashback. During that flashback, the convicts tell the story of Matrac (Humphrey Bogart) in pre-war France which starts the next flashback, concerning Matrac's small newspaper and his railroading to prison on a false murder charge.
The unique "flashback-within-flashback" format of the movie follows the narrative structure of the original novel, Sans Patrie (Men Without Country).
- Humphrey Bogart - Matrac
- Michèle Morgan - Paula
- Claude Rains - Capt. Freycinet
- Sydney Greenstreet - Maj. Duval
- Peter Lorre - Marius
- Philip Dorn - Renault
- John Loder - Manning
- George Tobias - Petit
- Vladimir Sokoloff - Grandpère
- Eduardo Ciannelli - Chief Engineer
- Konstantin Shayne - First Mate
- Victor Francen - Capt. Patain Malo
- Helmut Dantine - Garou
- Louis Mercier - Engineer
- Monte Blue - Second Mate
- Stephen Richards - Lt. Hastings
- Hans Conried - Jourdain
- Billy Roy - Mess Boy
- Charles La Torre - Lt. Lenoir
- Mark Stevens - Lt. Hastings
- Donald Stuart - Military Driver
- Walter Bonn - Prison Official
- Adrienne D'Ambricourt - Mayor's Wife
- Jean del Val - Raoul
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