Warner Archive has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray Michael Curtiz's film
Passage to Marseille (1944), starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn, and Sydney Greenstreet. The release will be available for purchase later this year.
Synopsis: Unfolded in a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, this is the story of Jean Matrac, a freedom-loving French journalist who sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny. The film opens as French liason officer Freycinet, stationed in London, tells Mantrac's story to a British reporter. Freycinet reveals that Mantrac, happily married to Paula, was framed by pro-fascists and sentenced to Devil's Island. Here he engineered a daring escape with such lost souls as Marius, Garou, Petit and Renault. Adrift in a lifeboat, the escapees were picked up by a French vessel commandeered by pro-fascist Major Duval. With the help of Mantrac and the prisoners, the ship's patriotic captain thwarted Duval's evil machinations, enabling Mantrac to continue his battle against Nazism as a member of the RAF.
Special Features:
- Warner at the Movies
- Uncertain Glory Theatrical Trailer
- Vintage Newsreel
- I Won't Play - Academy Award Winning Short Subject
- Jammin' the Blues - Academy Award Nominated Musical Short Subject
- The Weakly Reporter - Cartoon Classic
- The Free French: Unsung Victors - Featurette about the WWII French Resistance
- Breakdowns of 1944 - Studio Blooper Reel
- Passage to Marseille Theatrical Trailer - Newly Remastered