The Passage

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The Passage


Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Drama, War
Release Year: 1979
Country: UK
Runtime: 99
Rating: 6.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:

  • An ice-swept escape route in front of them. A cold-blooded killer behind them. The only way out is up.


    • Writing by: Bruce Nicolaysen - (novel "Perilous Passage")
    Bruce Nicolaysen - (screenplay)

    Produced by: Maurice Binder - producer
    John Daly - executive producer
    Derek Dawson - executive producer
    Lester Goldsmith - producer
    Geoffrey Helman - associate producer
    John Quested - producer

    Cast: Anthony Quinn - The Basque
    James Mason - Professor Bergson
    Malcolm McDowell - Capt. Von Berkow
    Patricia Neal - Mrs. Bergson
    Kay Lenz - Leah Bergson
    Paul Clemens - Paul Bergson
    Christopher Lee - Gypsy
    Robert Rhys - Gypsy Son
    Michael Lonsdale - Renoudot
    Marcel Bozzuffi - Perea
    Peter Arne - Guide

    Music: Michael J. Lewis
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    Plot Outline: Jimmy McMahon (Meany) and his group of Liverpudlians plot to win the annual Ceili music competition in Ireland.
    Plot: During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    End credits: "No live girls were hurt or injured during the making of this motion picture."

    Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Audio/visual unsynchronized: At various times throughout the film (notably in the pub and during the ceilidh band competition) when we see Anne (Andrea Corr) playing fiddle, her bow is moving but her fingers are not.

    Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • James Mason had predicted to his co-star Kay Lenz that the movie would be a flop at the box office. He said, "You mark my words. All films that are predominantly in thick snow are a flop at the box office. Somehow they make an audience feel uncomfortably cold and damp." It turned out he was right and the film flopped worldwide.



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