James Mason is a consummate actor. He always made you believe every word of whatever character he played. This role was no exception. You thoroughly bought into his character of a lover who will go to any lengths to gain vengeance for the murder of his beloved. This film contains one of the greatest prolonged sequences of cat and mouse techniques in film. That is what gets the film rated above average. The ending is extremely unsatisfying, in my opinion, is anti-climatic and unjustified. But then again, life is incongruent. A film to be savored, despite its fatal flaw.
True story from 1948. This film and another "Dark Passage" were playing at a second run theater on 42nd Street, when a terrible storm blew off three letters off of the marquee. Two letters from The Upturned Glass, and one letter from Dark Passage. Attendance for the evening show increased by 300% over the afternoon matinee.
True story from 1948. This film and another "Dark Passage" were playing at a second run theater on 42nd Street, when a terrible storm blew off three letters off of the marquee. Two letters from The Upturned Glass, and one letter from Dark Passage. Attendance for the evening show increased by 300% over the afternoon matinee.