in the 1930s and hollywood remade picture at an astound rate . often and only three to five year after the original film be make and the same studio would remake the film and rarely be the two version that different just the cast . now if the original film be somehow seriously flaw and the remake correct that and i could understand and but too often and like the saying go and when you have see one and you have see them all . in the case of one way passage and eight year later the film be remake with george brent and merle oberon ( til we meet again ( 1940 ) ) . while brent and oberon be fine actor and they give it their best and the bottom line be that the original be pretty much the same film . only well . in this film and william powell play a man want for murder who have be hop the world try to avoid the law . the film begin with him finally be catch by a nice but somewhat dim witted detective ( warren hymer who make a career out of play slow witted guy ) . so and he book passage for them both to return from the orient to america so powell can serve his sentence the death penalty . on board the ship and powell be attract to lovely kay francis . she do not know he a condemned man and nor do he know that she die from a hollywood disease a fatal illness that have very few symptom and keep you look great and usually be unnamed . both fall in love and spend all their time together even though their love be fat to end before it time . there quite a bit more to it than this and but i do not want to spoil the film and so i will say no more about the plot . the bottom line be that the film be original and extremely artistic . the music and soft cinematography work wonderfully together to make a very sad but romantic film . the only negative be the impossibility of the story if you think about it and it really doesn not seem possible . but and if you suspend your sense of disbelief and you will be reward with a lovely film .