Agree with everything you've said here, Hibi.Hibi wrote: ↑May 6th, 2024, 8:47 amYes! And what doctor is available for surgery at 3AM??? (Even one who lost his medical license!) And he recovers in ONE WEEK??? (back then it would've been even worse than now) Come on. I watched it, but I don't think I could again. The story is just so farfetched and unbelievable. Agnes and the location shooting helps some as does the gimmick of not seeing Bogie in the beginning, but repeated viewing just makes for a lot of eye rolling. Don't want to list all the plot holes/implausibilities or the post would go on forever...Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑May 5th, 2024, 8:43 pm The plastic surgery segment in DARK PASSAGE always creeps me out, including a scary looking Bogie with those bandages. It almost seems like a nod back from Warner's to their 1930's urban horror thrillers, DR. X, MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM and THE RETURN OF DR. X.
This was probably my fourth time ever of watching 'Dark Passage', and it does seem each time I've watched it, I come away noticing more and more of the illogical and farfetched plot devices in Delmer Daves' script.
(...and speaking of Daves' script, I think the dialogue in it is stilted and proasic as well)