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Dark Passage: Book & Film

e of it there was practically nothing." (Goodis 7)

Goodis was different from writers like Cain and Woolrich in that he was concerned with "a decent sort of guy." Daves was also drawn to this type of material, and though he was not a great director in the American system, he was effective when he had a solid story. As Andrew Sarris observed, "Delmer Daves is the property of those who can enjoy stylistic conviction in an intellectual vacuum." (Sarris 176)

This is not to condescend to Goodis's book, though it has to be acknowledged that this was pulp fiction and not Nobel Prize winning literature. However, Goodis's concern with a gripping plot and a story that hinged on Bogart's proving of his innocence worked well in visual terms.

The cinematography by Sid Hickox emphasizes dark corners and shadows: all of this is symbolic of Bogart's Vincent Parry

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