SummaryA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Directed By:Tay Garnett
Written By:Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson, Robert Lord, Tay Garnett
One Way Passage
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80
This vintage movie is just another reminder that when it comes to movie romance, there's nothing more satisfying than a broken heart. [20 Jun 2002]
75
Classic shipboard romantic dramedy involving a condemned prisoner (William Powell) who hooks up with a dying woman (Kay Francis). Excellent support by Frank McHugh and Aline MacMahon as a pair of con artists. [31 Jan 2010, p.6]
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One of the quintessential Hollywood shipboard romances, with William Powell and Kay Francis as the seemingly doomed lovers who meet on the high seas. [26 Mar 2000, p.35]
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Unaccountably, it works.
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In its uncouth, brusque and implausible fashion "One Way Passage," a pictorial comedy drama which arrived at the Warners' Strand last night, offers quite a satisfactory entertainment.
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If this doesn't make you well up, nothing will. [27 Dec 2010, p.D3]
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Production Company:
- Warner Bros.
Release Date:Oct 22, 1932
Duration:1 h 7 m
Rating:TV-G
Tagline:Strangers may love- lovers may part...at the port of hell! You can't buy a return trip from the port of forbidden love- you must live with abandon- daringly- passionately! (Print Ad- New York Sun, ((New York NY)) 13 October 1932)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Photoplay Awards
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
