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One Way Passage

1932, Movie, NR, 69 mins

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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 ass... read more leave a comment
Camera by Robert Kurrle, nice turn as the bartender by Mike Donlin, as principals Dan (William Powell) and Joan (Kay Francis) meet in a Hong Kong bar, early in director Tay Garnett's One Way Passage, 1932.
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Posted: 2/2/2010
Fugitive Dan (William Powell) instructs the steward then plots his escape, failing to fool his sympathetic captor Steve (Warren Hymer), as the ship reaches Honolulu in director Tay Garnett's One Way Passage, 1932.
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An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal in One Way Passage (1932) with Kay Francis & William Powell.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Year: 1932
Rated NR

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Cast
William Powell: Dan Hardesty
Kay Francis: Joan Ames
Frank McHugh: Skippy
Aline MacMahon: Betty the Countess
Warren Hymer: Steve Burke
Frederick Burton: Doctor

 

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