On time and as discribed.
The seller's service was better than the movie.
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French Resistance Overseas
Added 5/12/2009
The film opens with a ship on a foggy ocean. It is dedicated to the Free French who are fighting Germany. Next they show the Germans using the old audio device for detecting aircraft (instead of radar). Bombs drop on a chemical factory. "Till we meet again." A journalist from London, Mr. Manning, visits the Free French airbase. The Flying Fortresses are prepared for a night mission. [Are those miniatures?] Captain Fressenay tells Manning about Matrac. This story starts on a tramp steamer where they talk about the Maginot Line. In the Caribbean they spot something, a small boat with exhausted men. Are they fugitives from Devil's Island? Or miners who want to return to France? "The man is insufferable." The Captain of the ship warns the men about their status. They tell him their stories. [This pads out the film and provides personal backgrounds.]
Will the old man help them escape? They tell about Matrac, a journalist who was against the Munich Agreement. Crowds attack his newspaper office while the police ignore this riot. Political oppression? [Do some of the scenes recall "Casablanca"?] Will Matrac be framed for a crime? Will he survive in solitary? The prisoners escape. But there are too many for the small boat. "Good Luck." News tells of the fall of France. Captain Duval has taken command of the ship, he noticed the changed course. [Never underestimate your enemy.] This tramp steamer is armed with Lewis guns and a cannon. [Protection against pirates?] Will a German bomber find their position? "Man the guns!" They fire a cannon at the bomber that returns fire. Then the bomber is hit and crashes. Matrac fires at the survivors to destroy them all. Captain Fressenay finishes the story and tells what happened after they reached England. One bomber has not returned with the others. When it lands there are casualties; one doesn't make it. There is an inspirational speech at the end.
This is not a good story but reflects the thinking of many at that time. Was the death of Matrac done as a punishment? Would any tramp steamer carry a cannon or even machine guns?
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Great movie!
Added 5/19/2008
Be warned, this is not your typical Bogart movie if all you are used to is Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon, however it is highly recommended if you want to see Bogart in a different type of role, and don't mind him being not as noble as some of his other films portray him.
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Passage to Marseille- Review
Added 3/25/2008
The movie provides a perspective of wartime France that one does not usually see. The film was made when the outcome of the war was not decided. One also sees some of the conflicts experienced by citizens caught up in war. It therefore provided an alternative perspective of the French- they are not all quitters. They are still fighting. The movie is definitely not politically correct. One sees altruism and self sacrifice next to retribution. One sees wise and stupid formal leadership. One sees the strength of informal leadership. One sees the exercise of judgement by officials who know when to adhere to the spirit of the law and when to ignore the letter of the law in deference to the spirit of the law.
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Most Patriotic Movie I Have Ever Seen!
Added 11/24/2006
Bogey at his best. He plays French newspaper reporter Jean Matrac who is framed on a murder charge after criticizing the Munich Pact in an editorial and sentenced to Devil's Island. He and a small group of convicts escape in a canoe when they learn of the Nazis invading France, ostensibly wishing to fight for their country. (Matrac merely wants to get home to his new bride and cares nothing about France after the way he was treated by its justice system.) They are picked up at sea by a French cargo ship bound for Marseilles and have numerous adventures aboard the ship including an air attack by a Nazi bomber and a mutiny. Arriving in England as France has surrendered before they reach Europe, all of the former convicts join the Free French Air Force. Matrac becomes a waist gunner aboard one of their B-17 bombers despite his misgivings about his homeland. I never fail to cry at the end, as many times as I have watched this movie since I was a boy. Absolutely incredible movie.
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On time and as discribed.
The seller's service was better than the movie.
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French Resistance Overseas
Added 5/12/2009
The film opens with a ship on a foggy ocean. It is dedicated to the Free French who are fighting Germany. Next they show the Germans using the old audio device for detecting aircraft (instead of radar). Bombs drop on a chemical factory. "Till we meet again." A journalist from London, Mr. Manning, visits the Free French airbase. The Flying Fortresses are prepared for a night mission. [Are those miniatures?] Captain Fressenay tells Manning about Matrac. This story starts on a tramp steamer where they talk about the Maginot Line. In the Caribbean they spot something, a small boat with exhausted men. Are they fugitives from Devil's Island? Or miners who want to return to France? "The man is insufferable." The Captain of the ship warns the men about their status. They tell him their stories. [This pads out the film and provides personal backgrounds.]
Will the old man help them escape? They tell about Matrac, a journalist who was against the Munich Agreement. Crowds attack his newspaper office while the police ignore this riot. Political oppression? [Do some of the scenes recall "Casablanca"?] Will Matrac be framed for a crime? Will he survive in solitary? The prisoners escape. But there are too many for the small boat. "Good Luck." News tells of the fall of France. Captain Duval has taken command of the ship, he noticed the changed course. [Never underestimate your enemy.] This tramp steamer is armed with Lewis guns and a cannon. [Protection against pirates?] Will a German bomber find their position? "Man the guns!" They fire a cannon at the bomber that returns fire. Then the bomber is hit and crashes. Matrac fires at the survivors to destroy them all. Captain Fressenay finishes the story and tells what happened after they reached England. One bomber has not returned with the others. When it lands there are casualties; one doesn't make it. There is an inspirational speech at the end.
This is not a good story but reflects the thinking of many at that time. Was the death of Matrac done as a punishment? Would any tramp steamer carry a cannon or even machine guns?
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Great movie!
Added 5/19/2008
Be warned, this is not your typical Bogart movie if all you are used to is Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon, however it is highly recommended if you want to see Bogart in a different type of role, and don't mind him being not as noble as some of his other films portray him.
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