David Goodis, Dark Passage
Œuvre au programme de lecture de l'épreuve orale d'anglais, langue de complément LV1, en série littéraire, pour l'examen du baccalauréat général, sessions 2006 et 2007
Novel in English
DVD
Convicted murder Vincent Parry escapes from prison and is picked up and sheltered by Irene Jansen, an artist with an interest in his case. Helped by a friendly cabbie, Parry gets a new face from a plastic surgeon, thereby enabling him to dodge the authorities and find his wife's real murderer. He has difficulty staying hidden at Irene's. This is because Madge Rapf, the spiteful woman whose testimony sent him up to prison keeps stopping by.
From Wikipedia
David Goodis
Selected online resources for Dark Passage by David Goodis
David Goodis (1916-1967) (Wikipedia).
David Goodis, Poet of the Losers (Biography by Dave Moore)
David Goodis, 1917-1967. Une courte biographie sur le site "À l'ombre du polar.
Dark Passage, the film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (Wikipedia).
Strangers and Outcasts, displaced persons in the novels of David Goodis.
Dark Passage (film) Internet Movie Database.