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One Way Passage

1932, Movie, NR, 69 mins

One Way Passage: Review

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A better-than-average melodrama. Powell is a convict being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin to be executed for murder, and stylish Francis is a young woman dying of heart disease. They meet on board a ship heading to San Francisco and fall in love. McHugh and MacMahon supply comic relief as the matchmakers who keep San Francisco cop Hymer temporarily out of the way of the lovers. The haunting quality that pervades the tale of the doomed lovers is unusual for the assembly-line programming Warner Bros. churned out in the early 1930s. Part of this was due to the leisurely way its two stars went about their business in a film only 69 minutes long. Another factor in its success was certainly its director, Garnett, known for his love of sea stories. The picture often has been called his best in a career that spanned the late 1920s to the 1960s. Garnett worked for many different studios, mostly on melodramas, and his direction was always efficient and capable. He actually wrote the story treatment, working from an idea by Lord. He intended to take credit for this work but executive producer Hal B. Wallis told Garnett: "Let me remind you of Sam Taylor." Taylor had directed Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1928) and took an additional credit which later became celebrated, if not notorious: "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialog by Sam Taylor." Garnett decided to forego the story credit and, ironically, Lord, who only contributed the idea but who had the exclusive credit for the story, won an Oscar for Best Original Story. Songs include: "Where Was I?" (W. Frank Harling, Al Dubin) and "If I Had My Way." leave a comment
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