Passage to Marseilles

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Passage to Marseilles ★★★ 1944

Hollywood propaganda in which convicts escape from Devil's Island and help French freedom fighters combat Nazis. Routine but entertaining. What else could it be with Bogart, Raines, Greenstreet, and Lorre, who later made a pretty good film set in Casablanca? 110m/B VHS, DVD . Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Helmut Dantine, George Tobias, John Loder, Eduardo Ciannelli, Michele Morgan; D: Michael Curtiz; C: James Wong Howe; M: Max Steiner.

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