The Passage (1979 film)
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Director J. Lee Thompson Music director Michael J. Lewis Duration Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Action, Drama, War Screenplay Bruce Nicolaysen Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1979 Writer Bruce Nicolaysen (novel), Bruce Nicolaysen (screenplay) Initial release February 26, 1979 (Turkey) Cast (The Basque), (Professor Bergson), (Capt. Von Berkow), (Mrs. Bergson), (Leah Bergson), Paul Clemens (Paul Bergson)Similar movies Fury , Captain America: The First Avenger , Saving Private Ryan , The Monuments Men , The Train , The Book Thief Tagline An ice-swept escape route in front of them. A cold-blooded killer behind them. The only way out is up. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scene from the passage 1979
The Passage is a 1979 British action–war film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell and Patricia Neal. The film is based upon the 1976 novel, Perilous Passage by Bruce Nicolaysen, who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
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Plot
During World War II, a Basque farmer (Anthony Quinn) is asked by the French resistance to help a fleeing scientist (James Mason) and his family escape across the Pyrenees Mountains to safety in neutral Spain. On his trail are a group of Germans, led by a sadistic SS officer (Malcolm McDowell).
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Reviews
As he made this movie in Europe and England, James Mason predicted to co-star Kay Lenz that people do not like movies in snow and this film would bomb miserably after they were finished making it. He was right: the film opened to bad box office worldwide and, in critics' eyes, was a disaster in contrast to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 masterpiece The Guns of Navarone.
From Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide:
"Trashy WW2 story of Basque guide Quinn helping chemist Mason and his family escape over the Pyrenees with Nazi fanatic McDowell in hot pursuit. McDowell's campy performance must be seen to be disbelieved."
References
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