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Canyon Passage

Play trailer Poster for Canyon Passage 1946,  1h 32m,  Western Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 100% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 64% 100+ Ratings Popcornmeter
100% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 64% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) is the proprietor of a general store in an Oregon mining town. His best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), is a greedy banker and compulsive gambler. Logan falls in love with Camrose's fiancée, Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward), but proposes to his own girlfriend, Caroline Marsh (Patricia Roc), despite his secret love for Lucy. While dealing with romantic issues, Logan must also deal with murder, rape, robbery attempts, brawls and Native American attacks.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Nov 28, 2016
Avoiding history and politics, Tourneur serves up, in a dreamlike Technicolor glow, a pastoral film noir. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Mar 29, 2020
3/4
A sturdy Western in which, for once, the story is more sprawling than the scenery. Go to Full Review
Josephine O'Neill Daily Telegraph (Australia) Apr 9, 2019
Only a rambling script, which settles down to a jog-trot through magnificent Technicolor backgrounds of Oregon lake and timber, prevents it from being a film of this or any other week. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 30, 2011
B
Lavishly mounted Western by Jacques Tourneur, better known for his noir films Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Turner Classic Movies Online Aug 11, 2010
... a remarkably dense drama where the tensions between individual enterprise and communal good are often strained and the line between hero and villain... gray. Go to Full Review
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Sep 5, 2009
Jacques Tourneur at work in color on Western landscapes is something to behold Go to Full Review
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Leia W Aug 3, 2018 Canyon Passage is a brawling and sprawling American Western.
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Cast & Crew

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Jacques Tourneur

Director

Dana Andrews

Logan Stuart

Brian Donlevy

George Camrose

Susan Hayward

Lucy Overmire

Patricia Roc

Caroline Marsh

Ward Bond

Honey Bragg

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Canyon Passage

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Movie Info

Synopsis Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) is the proprietor of a general store in an Oregon mining town. His best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), is a greedy banker and compulsive gambler. Logan falls in love with Camrose's fiancée, Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward), but proposes to his own girlfriend, Caroline Marsh (Patricia Roc), despite his secret love for Lucy. While dealing with romantic issues, Logan must also deal with murder, rape, robbery attempts, brawls and Native American attacks.
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Producer
Walter Wanger
Screenwriter
Ernest Pascal
Production Co
Universal Pictures
Genre
Western
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 17, 1946, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Runtime
1h 32m
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