Passage Home (1955)

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• Filmado em: Pinewood (estúdios)

Passage Home is a 1955 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Anthony Steel, Peter Finch and Diane Cilento. The screenplay was by William Fairchild based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Richard Armstrong.

Production

It was Roy Ward Baker's first film back in England after working for several years in Hollywood where he had made three thrillers (Don’t Bother to Knock, Night without Sleep and Inferno) before being fired off White Witch Doctor.

The script was by William Fairchild who had written Morning Departure (1950), also directed by Baker. The director called it "a bomb in the bomb locker story... all pretty formula stuff. It's not very good... The whole film should have been set in 1885 on a sailing ship. It was sort of a Victorian film.

Baker felt the "only interesting thing about" the film was it used a new form of back projection, a blue backing system, or the travelling matte. This technique allowed the foreground to be separated from the background, enabling a moving matte behind which the desired background could be inserted later. Baker claimed this was used in 60% of the movie. It was the first Rank film shot in VistaVision.

Baker called Finch "probably more of a theatre actor than a cinema actor. I liked him. He was a wonderful sort of con-man — he had about three different life stories he would tell you, all completely different and hilariously funny. I really don’t know what the truth was and I didn’t care. He was such great fun and a very, very good actor. Passage Home had a marvellous cast."

Diane Cilento's casting was announced in September 1954. She was cast after producer Julian Wintle had seen 60 people. Cilento had only recently appeared on stage in The Big Knife and signed a five-year contract with Alex Korda. Her co star was Peter Finch, a fellow Australian.

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