Reel SF

San Francisco movie locations from classic films

San Francisco movie locations from classic films

Dark Passage - Prison Escape

Then ...  The movie opens with a panorama of the infamous San Quentin Prison in Marin County north of the Golden Gate bridge (map).  A truck drives out carrying escapee Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart) hidden inside an oil drum.

... and Now,  the prison dates from 1852 and has hardly changed from the outside for many decades, except for the added parking lot.

 

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