On July 22, 2018, TCM showed "Dark Passage" (1947) as its selection for its weekly "Noir Alley" show (Saturday night at midnight ET, repeating Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. ET) Here is the intro by host Eddie Muller, aka The Czar of Noir.
I saw Eddie Muller in person at a movie theater where Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity were being shown as a double feature. He provided a talk before each movie and in between movies and did a Q&A for the audience. This guy knows his film noir stuff. 👍👍👍
Awesome scene. I don't know who played the doc, but I think that the cab driver was played by character actor Tom D'Andrea. That part when Bogie goes under the anesthesia is a trip! Very stylized and quite surreal, esp for the '40s. "You got the money..." And with that razor and leery cackle. 😅
Delmer Daves was a good director. He did a couple of good westerns with Glen Ford. Bogart was 45 when he married 19 year old Lauren Bacall? A young woman at that age interested in him. He must have had something as well as the obvious on screen to get her. These stars had a parallel time life to the rest of us. I wonder what it would have been like to live it. I'm not sure that I would have liked it. It's pretty hard to imagine. Outside everyone else's world. Existential. Amazing really.
This film is enjoyable and I have watched it several times, but I don't think there is a single scene in the movie, from start to finish, that is remotely plausible.
