A Passage to Marseilles – 1944

• 2020/12/14

As a double-bill with last month’s recommendation – and featuring more dastardly Nazis and patriotic derring-do – we present to you the unofficial sequel to Casablanca. This time, the focus is on men fleeing French penal colonies (so brutally illustrated in Papillon) run by the collaborator Vichy government, in order to return to Europe and fight for their country. Like Casablanca before it, with which it shares the key creative staff, the cast is the stuff dreams are made of: Bogart, Lorre, Rains, Greenstreet… Enjoy a seriously underrated treasure.