Canyon Passage (1946)

Directed by

Jacques Tourneur

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 69 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In mid-1850s Oregon Territory, a trader gets caught between two women and a looming Native American uprising. The story follows his struggles with loyalty and survival.

romantictensedramaticfrontieratmosphericaction-packedsentimentalclassic

What happens

Canyon Passage is a 1946 American Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and set in the American frontier era of the old Oregon Territory in the mid-1850s. It stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy. Featuring love triangles and an Indian natives uprising, the film was adapted from the 1945 novelette in the Saturday Evening Post magazine of Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox. Hoagy Carmichael, (music) and Jack Brooks (lyrics) were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Ole Buttermilk Sky" sung in the film by Carmichael. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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