Passage to Marseille (1944)

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   DisneyStitch

   Instantly became one of my top 3 Bogart films. I've never seen a movie that featured a flashback within a flashback within a flashback before but it works amazingly well. Bogart shines as a conflicted yet innerly patriotic man who's been through the ringer and back again. The cast is superb and the plot is well thought out and executed from beginning to end. 8 years 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Passage to Marseille is a patriotic war movie with lots of Casablanca alumni (Michael Curtiz, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet, to name the most famous) about a secret French Air Force making bombing runs on German-held territory. But despite it's explosive opening and intriguing premise, it's more about how this particular group of Frenchmen came together, and so begins a series of flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks, as characters tell other characters how other characters told them their stories and those of other characters. The structure is a mess, even if Curtiz keeps it all straight, but it means the film changes tack a number of times and isn't about anything except patriotically giving your life for your country (so enlist, young men!). Performances are good, and it does have a great and savage plane vs. boat sequence towards the end, but everything else feels unfinished. There's not enough of the secret bomber story, not enough of the romance, not enough of the prison escape... Like it doesn't know what it's meant to be, except propaganda. 4 years 7 months ago
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   Hippiemans

   Seeing the names involved you'd think you're in for a treat but this is a very bad film. You can't win them all. ;-) 10 years 5 months ago

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