Passage to Marseille (1944) on DVD

Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michele Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Helmut Dantine, John Loder, Victor Francen
Director: Michael Curtiz
Genre: Drama
Year: 1944
Studio: Warner Archives
Length: 110
Released: 5/8/2018
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (including costars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept Passage to Marseille. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps. Passage sailed into theaters on stormy seas. Controversy surrounded the scene in which Matrac machine-guns the helpless survivors of a downed plane that attacked the freighter. That a soldier of freedom would act ignobly brought protests from religious and censorship groups. But, like Matrac facing a strafing dive-bomber, the studio held it's ground. War could even dehumanize a hero. Domestic prints remained uncut.