Passage to Marseille is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe. The film reunited much of the cast of Casablanca , also directed by Curtiz, including Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Helmut Dantine. Michèle Morgan , Victor Francen, Philip Dorn and... George Tobias are also featured. It is one of the few films to use a flashback within a flashback within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an airbase in England during World War II. Free French Captain Freycinet tells a journalist the story of the French pilots stationed there. This opens into the first flashback, set on the tramp steamer Ville de Nancy just before the defeat of France by the Germans.
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| Release date: | February 16, 1944 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 109 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hal B. Wallis |
| Music by: | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography: | James Wong Howe |
| Screenplay by: | Casey Robinson, Elick Moll, Jack Moffitt |
| Adapted from: | Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) |