Dark Passage
In danger as violent as their love!!!
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
- Director
- Delmer Daves
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
20 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Dark Passage actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Dark Passage appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Prison Movies Ranked #48
Placed at #48 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Dark Passage returned 2.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $2M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Sep 5, 1947
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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