Bogey and Bacall in DARK PASSAGE Screening February 19th at Webster University

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

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in DARK PASSAGE screens at Webster University Tuesday February 12th. The screening will be at 7:30 at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE. This is the third of four Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall collaborations screening at Webster in February. The final film will be KEY LARGO Feb 26th. Look for more coverage of this great Bogey and Bacall film series here at We Are Movie Geeks in the coming weeks.

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 next Tuesday night!