since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
– Iris Murdoch.
Dark Passage
by David Goodis.
First published 1946.
ISBN 13: 9781598534467
ISBN 10: 1598534467
ASIN: B00TNBOFUI
Description:
The story of a man railroaded for his wife’s
murder and forced to assume a different identity after escaping from prison
becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of urban fear and loneliness. A
fugitive from justice, in the depths of despair, he finds refuge with a
beautiful woman as he struggles to unravel a nightmarish plot.
First published as a magazine serial, Dark
Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
Bacall, it is regarded as a classic of noir filmmaking.
For the first time, the best work of a
distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book
editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief
celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular
movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.
Credits:
A Woman's
Business (1920); Baby, Take a Bow (1934); Brilliant Marriage (1936); Chickie
(1925); Clothes (1920); Cock o' the Walk (1930); Delicious (1931); Devotion
(1931); Easy to Take (1936); False Faces (1932); Four Hours to Kill! (1935);
Good Medicine (1929); Hearts in Exile (1929); Her Sister (1917); In His Steps
(1936); Ladies' Man (1931); Lawful Larceny (1930); Love Without Question
(1920); National Red Cross Pageant (1917); Polo Joe (1936); Private Scandal
(1934); Sailors' Wives (1928); Secret Strings (1918); Shanghai (1935); Slaves
of Beauty (1927); Soft Living (1928); Strictly Personal (1933); Summer
Bachelors (1926); Ten Cents a Dance (1931); The Girl and the Judge (1918); The
Prince of Tempters (1926); The Right of Way (1930); The Right of Way (1930);
The Scarlet Empress (1934); The Silent Master (1917); The Trap (1919); The
Trial of Mary Dugan (1929); The Unforseen (1917); The Very Idea (1929); The
Witching Hour (1934); The Wrong Woman (1920); To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918);
Under Southern Stars (1937); Wings of Pride (1920); Woman Hungry (1931);
Womanhandled (1925); Worlds Apart (1921); Yours for the Asking (1936); Zaza
(1938).
Credits:
A Hell Of A Woman (1954); A Swell-Looking Babe (1954); After Dark, My Sweet (1955); Bad Boy (1953); Child Of Rage (1972); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Cropper's Cabin (1952); Fireworks (1988); Hard-boiled (1995); Heed The Thunder (1946); Ironside (1967); King Blood (1973); More Hardcore: 3 Novels (1987); Murder Plus (1992); Nothing But A Man (1970); Nothing More Than Murder (1949); Now and On Earth (1942); Pop. 1280 (1964); Pulp Frictions (1996); Recoil (1953); Roughneck (1954); Savage Night (1953); South Of Heaven (1967); Texas By The Tail (1965); The Alcoholics (1953); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987); The Criminal (1953); The Getaway (1959); The Golden Gizmo (1954); The Grifters (1963); The Jim Thompson Omnibus (1995); The Killer Inside Me (1952); The Kill-Off (1957); The Nothing Man (1954); The Rip-Off (1989); The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus (1997); The Transgressors (1961); The Undefeated (1969); Unusual Suspects (1996); Wild Town (1957).
Movies and television:
After Dark,
My Sweet (1990); Cain's Hundred (1961); Clean Slate (1981); Convoy (1965); Dr.
Kildare (1965); Fallen Angels (1993); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Hit Me
(1996); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Paths of Glory (1957); Pop. 1280
(2024); Serie Noire (1979); The Getaway (1972 / 1994); The Grifters (1990); The
Killer Inside Me (1976 / 2010); The Killing (1956); The Kill-Off (1989); This
World, Then the Fireworks (1997); Trapped (2014).
Credits:
10 to
Midnight (1983); 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); A Place to Grow
(1995); Absence of Malice (1981); Act of Vengeance (1986); All My Friends Are
Cowboys (1998); Amber Waves (1980); Bandolero! (1968); Big John (2006); Billy
the Kid (1989); Biography (1999); Blood River (1991); Borderline (1980); Born
to Ride: Cody Wright and the Quest for a World Title (2009); Brigham City
(2001); Brubaker (1980); Chapter Perfect (1997); Cocoon (1985); Cocoon: The
Return (1988); Comanche (2000); Country (1984); Crossfire Trail (2001); Death
Valley (1982); Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009); Double Toasted (2022);
End of the Line (1987); Entertainment Tonight (2020); Eternity (1990); Ewoks:
The Battle for Endor (1985); Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional
Vaudeville (1987); Hard Target (1993); Harry & Son (1984); Heaven Sent
(1994); High Road to China (1983); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); How the
West Was Won (1979); I Believe (2017); In & Out (1997); Jackals (1986);
Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1989); Keeper of the Flame (2005); Kung Fu
(1975); Larry King Live (2003); Last of the Dogmen (1995); Lawman (1971);
Liberty Medical Commercial (2004); Liberty Medical Wilford Brimley Diabetes
Commercial (1990); Live with Kelly and Mark (1990); Lunker Lake (1998); Mansome
(2012); Masque (2012); Miracles & Mercies (2002); Murder in Space (1985);
Mutant Species (1994); My Fellow Americans (1996); One on One with John Tesh
(1992); OP Center (1995); Our House (1986–1988); PC and the Web (2001); Pitcher
and the Pin-Up (2003); Progeny (1998); Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
(1985); Resurrection Mary (2002); Rétrogaming made in France (2019); Rodeo Girl
(1980); Roughnecks (1980); Seinfeld (1997); Shadows on the Wall (1986); Special
Collector's Edition (2012); Summer of the Monkeys (1998); TCM Remembers 2020
(2020); Tender Mercies (1983); Terror in the Aisles (1984); The 72nd Primetime
Emmy Awards (2020); The Awakening Land (1978); The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
(2001); The Big Black Pill (1981); The Boys of Twilight (1992); The China
Syndrome (1979); The Electric Horseman (1979); The Firm (1983 / 1993); The
Frollo Show (2011–2020); The Frollo Show (2019); The Good Old Boys (1995); The
Hotel New Hampshire (1984); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2011–2013);
The Making of 'Absence of Malice' (1982); The Making of 'the China Syndrome'
(1979); The Men of Outpost 31 (2016); The Natural (1984); The Natural: The Best
There Ever Was (2016); The Oregon Trail (1976–1977); The Oscars (2021); The
Path of the Wind (2009); The Round and Round (2002); The Stone Boy (1984); The
Thing (1982); The Waltons (1974–1977); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979);
Thompson's Last Run (1986); Timber the Treasure Dog (2016); Tough Enough
(1983); True Grit (1969); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000);
Walker, Texas Ranger (1993); Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two (1992);
Wilson's Floral (2016); Yellowstone (2020 / 2021).