1947 · noir · fugitive · first-person
Dark Passage
Directed by Delmer Daves1h 46m1947
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
Our read: Dark Passage (1947) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive noir · fugitive · first-person entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured noir / fugitive, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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