Bogie & Bacall! DARK PASSAGE April 19th at The Tivoli – ‘Classics in the Loop’

“You know, it’s wonderful when guys like you lose out. Makes guys like me think maybe we got a chance in this world.”

DARK PASSAGE (1947) screens Wednesday April 19th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ Crime & Noir film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.

DARK PASSAGE (1947) was the third of the four Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall pairings of the 40s. It’s the least remembered, but it’s great entertainment and Bacall and Bogart really steam up the screen. The movie starts off brilliantly, shown from the P.O.V. of Vincnet Parry (Bogart), a prison escapee, who has been wrongly incarcerated for his wife’s murder. While on the run he is picked up by a beautiful woman who has been following his case for personal reasons of her own. Of course she’s played by Lauren Bacall and after some plastic surgery the prisoner becomes Humphrey Bogart and the pair team up to find the real killer. Sam the cab driver (Tom D’Andrea) suggests he visit Dr. Walter Coley (Houseley Stevenson) a Plastic Surgeon who gives him a new face. Once Parry removes the bandages, he begins searching for the killer, and is beset with revolving questions and an odd assortment of characters which include Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead and Clifton Young. Don’t miss DARK PASSAGE Wednesday night!

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series:
April 26th – SUNSET BOULEVARD – 1950
May 3rd – THE THIRD MAN – 1949
May 10th – TOUCH OF EVIL – 1958
May 17th – CHINATOWN – 1974
May 24th – BLOOD SIMPLE – 1984

Look for continued coverage of the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series here at We Are movie Geeks.