But where is Bogart's face?
I first saw"Dark Passage," the 1947 thriller, when I was in my early 20s and about to move from the UK to San Francisco., absorbing the long shadows, morally dubious heroes and double-crossing femme fatales in"The Maltese Falcon,""Touch of Evil,""Double Indemnity" and dozens more. But I’d read that one movie captured the city I was about to move to like no other film.
After beating up a man who identifies Parry from a police radio dispatch, a guardian angel in the form of Lauren Bacall appears from the bushes. Visiting the building now is worth the 400-stair climb up the Filbert Street steps . The building has been meticulously maintained over the decades and looks exactly as it does in the movie, and occasionally one resident stands a full-size Humphrey Bogart cut-out in the window.