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	Passage to Marseille [VHS] Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains Warner Home Video, 2000 average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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. Year: 1944 Director: Michael Curtiz Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michelle Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre Special Feature: Original Theatrical Trailer

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Most Patriotic Movie I Have Ever Seen!

Bogey at his best. He plays French newspaper reporter Jean Matrac who is framed on a murder charge after criticizing the Munich Pact in an editorial and sentenced to Devil's Island. He and a small group of convicts escape in a canoe when they learn of the Nazis invading France, ostensibly wishing to fight for their country. (Matrac merely wants to get home to his new bride and cares nothing about France after the way he was treated by its justice system.) They are picked up at sea by a French cargo ship bound for Marseilles and have numerous adventures aboard the ship including an air attack by a Nazi bomber and a mutiny. Arriving in England as France has surrendered before they reach Europe, all of the former convicts join the Free French Air Force. Matrac becomes a waist gunner aboard one of their B-17 bombers despite his misgivings about his homeland. I never fail to cry at the end, as many times as I have watched this movie since I was a boy. Absolutely incredible movie.

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Very good

On time and as discribed.

The seller's service was better than the movie.


Great movie!

Be warned, this is not your typical Bogart movie if all you are used to is Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon, however it is highly recommended if you want to see Bogart in a different type of role, and don't mind him being not as noble as some of his other films portray him.


Passage to Marseille- Review

The movie provides a perspective of wartime France that one does not usually see. The film was made when the outcome of the war was not decided. One also sees some of the conflicts experienced by citizens caught up in war. It therefore provided an alternative perspective of the French- they are not all quitters. They are still fighting. The movie is definitely not politically correct. One sees altruism and self sacrifice next to retribution. One sees wise and stupid formal leadership. One sees the strength of informal leadership. One sees the exercise of judgement by officials who know when to adhere to the spirit of the law and when to ignore the letter of the law in deference to the spirit of the law.

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