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Canyon Passage (1946)
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Writers:
Ernest Haycox (adapted from the Saturday Evening Post novel "Canyon Passage")
Ernest Pascal (screenplay)
Ernest Pascal (screenplay)
Release Date:
17 July 1946 (USA)
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Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
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"Any Man Can Choose His Own God"!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dana Andrews | ... | Logan Stuart | |
| Brian Donlevy | ... | George Camrose | |
| Susan Hayward | ... | Lucy Overmire | |
| Patricia Roc | ... | Caroline Marsh | |
| Ward Bond | ... | Honey Bragg | |
| Hoagy Carmichael | ... | Hi Linnet | |
| Fay Holden | ... | Mrs. Overmire | |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Jonas Overmire | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | Johnny Steele | |
| Andy Devine | ... | Ben Dance | |
| Victor Cutler | ... | Vane Blazier | |
| Rose Hobart | ... | Marta Lestrade | |
| Halliwell Hobbes | ... | Clenchfield | |
| James Cardwell | ... | Gray Bartlett | |
| Onslow Stevens | ... | Jack Lestrade |
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92 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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George Camrose:
We're all careless with gold. It's the cheapest thing in camp.
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Soundtrack:
OLE BUTTERMILK SKY
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Tourneur's first Western is yet another of the director's unjustly misunderstood works. What at first appears to be vague or meandering tale is in fact an infinitely personal work with a subtle direction. Of all Tourneur pictures I have seen, "Canyon Passage" is the most endlessly fascinating. Here is a movie rich with pictorial beauty and simplicity, yet every time I watch it, I discover new things. The meaning often shifts and turns, revealing new depths, emotions, insights. You will probably not going to notice its emotional richness if you have just seen it once.
When I first saw "Canyon Passage", I was a little puzzled by it, especially the relationship between Dana Andrews' Logan and Brian Donlevy's George, but successive viewings and Chris Fujiwara's book were extremely helpful. "Canyon Passage" is far from a typical or ordinary Western, even though it concerns with theme of the affirmation of the American Myth or the cohesion of community. Most of the events occur off screen, the dialogue alludes to previous events that took place before the movie starts, the Hoagy Carmichael songs are unforgettable and become more timeless with each viewing. The three separate songs lyricize the narrative much like the timeless unifying song in Tourneur's masterful "Stars in My Crown"(1950).
Please give it another chance. It helps a bit if you revisit it from time to time to appreciate its neverending beauty and subtlety.