A documentary short by Edward Holub · 17 minutes · Restored and released 2026
David Goodis wrote Dark Passage for Bogart and Bacall and Shoot the Piano Player for Truffaut, climbed all the way to Hollywood, and fell all the way back to the Philadelphia row houses that made him. He died in 1967 — cause of death, cerebral vascular accident; cause of obscurity, nobody looked. This film walks every block of his city: the taverns where the regulars still talk like his paperbacks, the streets that took his life.
Shot on the streets of Philadelphia and buried for years under a soundtrack that swallowed every word, the film was rebuilt in 2026 — regraded frame by frame, every photograph and pulp paperback cover rescanned, the sound reconstructed from nothing.
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Credits
Written, directed and photographed by Edward Holub
Featuring Lou Boxer (NoirCon) and crime novelist Duane Swierczynski
Language: English · Country: United States