One Way Passage

One Way Passage (1932)

Their tickets took them to a heaven of love...but port was the gateway to hell!

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

Date of release
1932-10-04
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (68)
Runtime
1h 8m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Tay Garnett

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $350K
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Story

One Way Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The screenplay by Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson is based on a story by Robert Lord, who won the Academy Award for Best Story.

Production

As the ship draws near San Francisco, Dan and Joan talk about the Golden Gates, remembering the words of a hymn. Dan says that when he was a little boy growing up in San Francisco, he thought the gates in the hymn were the Golden Gate of San Francisco. He is referring to the Golden Gate Strait at the mouth of San Francisco bay, not the Golden Gate Bridge. Construction on the bridge would begin in January 1933.

The film's working title was S.S. Atlantic.

This was the sixth time that Powell and Francis appeared together, and it was their biggest moneymaker.

Francis' gowns were created by Orry-Kelly, who had just joined Warner Bros. in 1932. He went on to win three Academy Awards for costume design.

James Kendis and Lou Klein are credited as composers. The pervasive love theme was reportedly written by W. Franke Harling, uncredited. Aloha O'e by Hawai'i's Queen Lili'uokalani, also figures prominently in the soundtrack.

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