Shandor reacts to DARK PASSAGE (1947) - FIRST TIME WATCHING!!!

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@wraithby 3 ай бұрын

Agnes Moorehead playing Madge, she's a great one. She was closely associated with Orson Welles, who said she gave the greatest performance he'd ever seen, in his film the Magnificent Ambersons.

@ludovicoc7046 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact: @ 5:01: the photo of "Calvin Jansen" is the director of Dark Passage--Delmer Daves.

@MrRondonmon 3 ай бұрын

When she fell out the window I half expected "Endora" to fly like she did on Bewitched 🤣

@marlasotherchannel9847 3 ай бұрын

So glad you watched and enjoyed this Bogart classic!

@Ceractucus 3 ай бұрын

Shandor, thanks much for reacting to this movie. This is the first classic movie I ever watched. I was on vacation with my mom and grandma at Disneyland and we were up late watching something else, this movie started playing and we were all glued to our seats. I was 10-12 years old. Much later I rediscovered it again. My mom and probably watched it 4 or 5 times a year until she passed a year ago.

@RenfrewPrume 3 ай бұрын

I have loved this movie since I first saw it on TV when I was 10, 60 years ago. I've seen it six or eight times since. Bogart and Bacall were already married. The studio was hugely opposed to the idea of not seeing Bogart's face for the first 1/3 of the movie, because they thought it was a waste of their big, high-priced star. As you noted, the film is amazingly innovative in several ways, and it is indeed generally considered a noir. Agnes Moorhead's performance as Madge is terrific. She is an under-appreciated actress, despite having gotten four Oscar nominations. She did did an amazing solo performance in "The Invaders," an episode of the original Twilight Zone TV series.

@calme-dx2dp 2 ай бұрын

My mom was an old movie buff. We watched all the golden oldies...even to this date, none of my fiends know about these movies like my siblings and I. They are mostly 50+++. Have you ever listened to *THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE* ? There were some really good mystery, they used to scare us at night.

@luminiferous1960 3 ай бұрын

For me, Bogart and Bacall are good in this movie, but Agnes Moorehead gives the best performance in the movie as the villain. I agree with what the blogger shadowsandsatin wrote in a Noirvember blog: "the best part of this film, for my money, is Agnes Moorehead, who played what was described as 'a definitive portrait of bitchery'...Although Dark Passage paled in comparison to previous Bogart-Bacall teamings, Moorehead’s unsympathetic role was a standout. She walked away with every scene she was in, and her performance lingered in the mind long after the credits rolled. She was rightfully singled out in several reviews; one critic termed her character “one of the most poisonous termagants the screen has presented in some time.”"

@Divamarja_CA 3 ай бұрын

I love this movie a lot! Not only for the 2 stars, but the locale and the hook of not showing Bogart’s face for much of the beginning of the movie. And Agnes Moorehead is a great actress! My only giggle are the close-ups showing Bogie as several inches taller than Bacall. We know that was patently untrue. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷‍♀️👞👠

@HuntingViolets 3 ай бұрын

She had an inch on him and more with heels. Maybe Vincent wore lifts, though.

@johnmoreland6089 3 ай бұрын

Probably the weakest of the Bogie-Bacall films, but it's my favorite, by far. So nice to see a reaction to it. Please keep the classics coming!

@HuntingViolets 3 ай бұрын

Interesting.

@deckofcards87 3 ай бұрын

Shandor I highly recommend 'High Sierra' with Bogart and the lovely Ida Lupino, directed by Raoul Walsh ...(White Heat, The Roaring Twenties) A super solid little crime noir. Also technically Bogie's first collaboration with John Huston. Another one is 'Gun Crazy' (1950) which is a masterpiece noir considered years ahead of it's time for it's use of handheld camera work, and, for the time, shocking voilence.

@rg3388 3 ай бұрын

Distinguished supporting cast. Very Shawshank ending.

@HuntingViolets 3 ай бұрын

If you haven't watched Lady in the Lake with Robert Montgomery, you should give it a go too.

@MrRondonmon 3 ай бұрын

In film noirs, back in the day, the crook always had to get caught, but with a twist, where the accused is innocent, we get a happy ending. The kid/man who died on the rocks, that was self defense.

@scottshaw5271 3 ай бұрын

Love watching movies with you and a few other youngsters on these channels...its great to see old movies with new eyes!!! Check out Mae West in :"Going to Town" and understand....women didn't cut their hair until the 1920s as it was considered sinful...women were in those years expected to be ladylike...Mae West wasn't young, pretty, or slim ..she was a scandal!!! Pass on her last two films made in the 1970s... David O. Selznick wanted her as Belle in "Gone With the Wind" which she turned down because Selznick wouldn't let her write her own dialogue... Billy Wilder's:"Sunset Boulevard" was written for her but was a little too close to home...her response to Wilder's plea was :" What?!!! I'm payin' him? He should be payin' me"!!!!

@airman9820 3 ай бұрын

Can you believe there was a time when you could actually buy a woody station wagon.

@mwflanagan1 3 ай бұрын

Good selection, Shandor. Still going through your reaction choices. I was intrigued to find that your name translates to ‘Alexander’ - sounds less dramatic than your name.