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- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
Summary During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.
Directed By: J. Lee Thompson
Written By: Bruce Nicolaysen, Stephen Oliver
- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 38 m
The Passage
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Summary During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.
Directed By: J. Lee Thompson
Written By: Bruce Nicolaysen, Stephen Oliver
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
25
0% Positive
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0 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
100% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
The director, J. Lee Thompson, was once a proficient craftsman. Not all that long ago he and Quinn were associated on the prestigious hit The Guns of Navarone. You can't help wondering what they, along with Mason and Neal, talked about between the takes of this howler. [29 Mar 1979, p.D15]
Director J. Lee Thompson has come a long, depressing way since the days of The Guns of Navarone: his film is sloppily edited, murkily photographed and shot through with a mean streak of sadism unredeemed by its clumsy camp value. [12 Mar 1979, p.89]
The script is a jumbled bag of war-movie cliches, and hack director J. Lee Thompson--who surpassed himself precisely once, with Cape Fear--is on auto-pilot throughout.
McDowell's comically histrionic performance is, in fact, the single redeeming feature in this lamentably simplistic and unpleasant piffle.
The performances are very, very bad, and the mountains boring.
The Family is running from The Hun (Malcolm McDowell). The Family is not running as fast as I would like to have run from The Passage. [29 Mar 1979]
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