description Passage to Marseille Overview
Passage to Marseille is a 1944 Warner Brothers war film directed by Michael Curtiz, adapted from Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s novel *Sans Patrie*. Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt wrote the screenplay for this production, which featured music by Max Steiner and cinematography by James Wong Howe. The film was released as both *Passage to Marseille* and *Message to Marseille*.
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info Passage to Marseille Specifications
| Country | United States |
| Year | 1944 |
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What is Passage to Marseille about?
The 1944 war film follows five political prisoners who escape Devil's Island and try to reach the Free French fight against Nazi Germany. Humphrey Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a French journalist who becomes central to the escape and resistance story. [TCM](https://www.tcm.com/articles/320/passage-to-marseille), [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/passage-to-marseille/cast-and-crew)
Who directed Passage to Marseille, and which studio made it?
Michael Curtiz directed the film for Warner Bros., with Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt adapting Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's novel Sans Patrie, also published as Men Without Country. Max Steiner wrote the music. [TCM](https://www.tcm.com/articles/320/passage-to-marseille)
Is Passage to Marseille connected to Casablanca?
Yes, it reunites Curtiz with Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet, two years after Casablanca. The films are not sequels, but the shared Warner Bros. cast and World War II setting make the connection obvious. [TCM](https://www.tcm.com/articles/320/passage-to-marseille)
Why does Passage to Marseille use so many flashbacks?
The story begins with a Free French air squadron and then moves through Captain Freycinet's account of the escaped prisoners and their separate histories. That layered flashback structure follows the novel and is one of the film's unusual formal features. [TCM](https://www.tcm.com/articles/320/passage-to-marseille)
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