The Passenger (1975)

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry. A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.

The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead man, Locke, long desirous of starting life over again, assumes the corpse's identity. He soon discovers that the man he's pretending to be is involved in gun running on behalf of a terrorist group. Making the acquaintance of a mysterious woman (Maria Schneider), he finds a kindred spirit -- a woman as

Trailer for Michelangelo Antonioni's film starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Ian Hendry, Charles Mulvehill, Jenny Runacre, Steven Berkoff, Ambroise Bi...

Richard Brody on Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" (1975).

Michelangelo Antonioni's film about a man on the run from himself dazzles from first shot to last.

Drama Movies 2016, Thriller Movies 2016 One of Jack Nicholson's best but also least known films, `The Passenger' or `Professione: Reporter' is a haunting exa...