| Passage to Marseille | |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Screenplay by | Casey Robinson Jack Moffitt |
| Based on | Sans Patrie (1942 novel) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Michèle Morgan Claude Rains |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | Owen Marks |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,332,000[1] |
| Box office | $3,786,000[1] |
Passage to Marseille, also known as Message to Marseille, is a 1944 American war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie (Men Without Country) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe.
Passage to Marseille is one of the few films to use a flashback within a flashback, within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an airbase in England during World War II. Free French Captain Freycinet tells a journalist the story of the French pilots stationed there. The second flashback is at the French prison colony at Cayenne in French Guiana while the third flashback sets the scene where the lead character, Matrac, a newspaper publisher, is framed for a murder to silence him.