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...industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems...
...Brothers Warner hit on a good thing when they teamed up Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet in the "Maltese Falcon," and they've used the squad in varying combinations ever since, most recently in "Passage to Marseille." The latest vehicle ranks somewhere below the "Maltese Falcon," and on a par with "Across the Pacific...
Passage to Marseille (Warner). It is just before the fall of France. A freighter, bound from New Caledonia for Marseille, is captained by a brave and gentle Frenchman (Victor Francen). One of his passengers (Sydney Greenstreet) is a professional soldier and a Fascist. An air corps officer (Claude Rains) is blithely unconcerned when he realizes that five derelicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, George Tobias) whom the ship picks up are fugitives from Devil's Island. They have escaped in order to fight for France...
Humphrey Bogart has a new type of role with sand replacing Greenstreet as the inscrutable foe, and he show his appreciation of the change by turning in what is distinctly one of his best performances in recent years...
Thus Hollywood assembles a potentially terrifying trio. Unfortunately, they are not given a very ominous score to play. Lorre eventually gets killed off. Raft makes too many narrow escapes from Greenstreet for credibility. And, for the purposes of action, Greenstreet talks too much in his best English accent...