HUMPHREY BOGART LAUREN BACALL INTERVIEW Film Noir LP TRANSCRIPTION DARK PASSAGE

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WARNER BROS. 1947 RADIO INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION

HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL

PROMOTING: DARK PASSAGE

RARE 33 rpm SPEED

LABEL: WARNER BROS. PICTURES INC.

YEAR OF ISSUE: 1947

COUNTRY OF ISSUE: USA

TRANSCRIPTIONS WERE MADE BY THE STUDIOS TO SEND TO RADIO STATIONS, SO DJ'S COULD PLAY THEM ON AIR TO PROMOTE THEIR LATEST FILMS.  TRANSCRIPTION IS ONE-SIDED AND COMES IN ORIGINAL MANILA STYLE SLEEVE.  FASCINATING INTERVIEW WITH BOGIE & BACALL.  THE DISC WAS TO PROMOTE THEIR NEWEST PICTURE, "DARK PASSAGE".  THEY TALK ABOUT THE PICTURE AND THEIR FEELINGS ABOUT THEIR LOVE SCENES AND MORE.  4:30 MINUTES.

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Dark Passage (1947)

Director: Delmer Daves
Writers: Delmer Daves (screenplay), David Goodis (novel)
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Bruce Bennett | See full cast and crew 

Complete credited cast:
  Humphrey Bogart  ...  Vincent Parry 
  Lauren Bacall  ...  Irene Jansen 
  Bruce Bennett  ...  Bob 
  Agnes Moorehead  ...  Madge Rapf 
  Tom D'Andrea  ...  Cabby (Sam) 
  Clifton Young  ...  Baker 
  Douglas Kennedy  ...  Detective Kennedy 
  Rory Mallinson  ...  George Fellsinger 
  Houseley Stevenson  ...  Dr. Walter Coley 
  John Alvin  ...  Blackie (scenes deleted) 

Storyline
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire pre-knife part of the film is shot from a Bogart's-eye-view, with us seeing the fugitive for the first time as he starts to recuperate from the operation in the apartment of a sympathetic young artist (played by Bacall) for whom he soon finds affection. But what he's really after is revenge.

Plot Keywords:Plastic Surgery | Escape From Prison | Male Female Relationship | Trumpet | Accidental Death 

Taglines:IN DANGER AS VIOLENT AS THEIR LOVE!!! (one-sheet poster)

Genres:Film-Noir | Thriller

Details
Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:27 September 1947 (USA)
Also Known As:Das unbekannte Gesicht 
Filming Locations:Filbert Steps, Filbert Street, San Francisco, California, USA -

Company Credits
Production Co:Warner Bros. Pictures S
Technical Specs
Runtime:106 min
Sound Mix:Mono (RCA Sound System)
Color:Black and White
Aspect Ratio:1.37 : 1

Trivia
When Vincent reads the newspaper clipping about Irene's father, the accompanying photograph of her father is that of director/screenwriter Delmer Daves.

Goofs
Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, part of the canvas over the truck is attached. Next shot it is all free.

Quotes
Vincent Parry: I'm hiding.
Detective: From what?
Vincent Parry: My wife, my friends, my family, everybody.
Detective: Come on now, it can't be as bad as all that.
Vincent Parry: Well, I tell you what you do. You go up there and spend seven years with my wife, and then if you're still in your right mind, come back down here and tell me about it.

Connections
Referenced in Hamlet (2000)

Soundtracks
"Too Marvelous for Words"
(uncredited)
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Performed on record twice by Jo Stafford
Also played on the jukebox at the bus station
Also played at the cafe in Peru and during the end credits

Bogey is an escaped prisoner. Bacall helps him stay escaped. To maintain his anonymity he has a face-change operation. It is a gimmick film, but the gimmick doesn't just serve its own purpose - it highlights a theme of faces, and what faces tell you about the person beneath.You can tell when something is being explored onscreen for the first time - its done more thoroughly and more excitedly than it ever will again. Think back to that first film about the phenomenon of email (Disclosure) or the internet (The Net), or what about the first film exploring chronology-changes (Citizen Kane) or hide-the-protagonist (The Third Man), or the excitement of acting (Streetcar Named Desire). That initial excitement is never really matched again - after that it becomes just another device, or a reference. The thing here is partly first-person narration (this came out the same year as Lady in the Lake), but wholly plastic surgery, the idea of changing your appearance. First-person narration is actually quite rare in cinema. Lady in the Lake is one of the only examples where they stick with it for an entire picture, resorting to gimmicks like having Robert Montgomery looking in a mirror. Its used to great effect in the first half of Dark Passage, in order to hide Bogart's face. It was partly mechanical. Its a face-change movie. Instead of starting with Bogart and changing his face to a different actor, they wanted to pretend he looked like a different person (which we only see in a few photographs), and then after the operation he just looks like Bogart. But what the device of hiding his face does is create suspense, and focus on the issue of faces, which is a recurring theme throughout. And it works to the positive for this film: what's the best way to hide someone's face? Put us behind their eyes! You never see your own face unless you're looking in the mirror. So until his operation, we see through Bogey's eyes - and the result is quite cinematic. It really frees up the movie, unshackling it from the static trappings of most studio pictures of this era. Instead of us just looking on from the edge of a set, which ends up looking like a stage, we're really taken into the action - its marvellous! And, to save the best till last - Bacall absolutely burns up the screen in this. She sets the celluloid on fire. Any single shot of her in this movie is magic. Just being onscreen and being magic, its the definition of the X-factor.
What a star-vehicle for Bogey. This was his Third Man. And Bacall is sensational!

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