Passage To Marseilles | The Fight for France | Warner Classics

Jean Matrac (Humphrey Bogart) leads a revolt against the Nazi sympathizing Pro-Vichy Government soldiers aboard the Ville de Nancy. When the Vichy men are defeated, one secretly radios the ship's position to a Nazi bomber which attacks the ship. Matrac and the men must shoot down the bomber. Subscribe to Warner Classics:    / @warnerbrosclassics   About Passage to Marseilles (Theatrical Release - February 15, 1944): Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart stars as a French patriot who sacrifices almost everything to fight for his country's freedom in Passage to Marseilles. World War II—Vichy France. In a harrowing story told in flashback, happily married French journalist Jean Matrac (Bogart) is framed and sentenced to Devil's island by French Fascists. But Matrac devises a bold escape from the legendary island prison, faces death adrift at sea with fellow escapees, helps the loyal crew of a French merchant ship overcome its pro-Fascist captain then fights for his country as a member of Britain's Royal Air Force. Based on the novel Men Without a Country by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. #HumphreyBogart #ww2films #ww2movies #classicwarfilms #vivelafrance