Canyon Passage

Released Jul 17, 1946

1h 32m

Western

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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

New Yorker

Avoiding history and politics, Tourneur serves up, in a dreamlike Technicolor glow, a pastoral film noir.

Nov 28, 2016

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

A sturdy Western in which, for once, the story is more sprawling than the scenery.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 29, 2020

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Josephine O'Neill

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

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.

Apr 9, 2019

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Lavishly mounted Western by Jacques Tourneur, better known for his noir films

Rated: B

Jul 30, 2011

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Sean Axmaker

Turner Classic Movies Online

... a remarkably dense drama where the tensions between individual enterprise and communal good are often strained and the line between hero and villain... gray.

Aug 11, 2010

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Jacques Tourneur at work in color on Western landscapes is something to behold

Sep 5, 2009

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Audience Member

Wretched. You'd be better off watching paint dry.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

Paixão Selvagem (1946) 4,0 ⭐️ #MovieReview Viajante e comerciante entre cidades do velho Oeste tenta ajudar amigo viciado em jogo enquanto é alvo de paixão de duas mulheres. Muito bom western em estilo clássico e estória bem desenvolvida!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Canyon Passage is a brawling and sprawling American Western.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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bill t

A remarkably slow build up (the first half doesn't move much at all) into much of nothing, really. Just boredom.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Somewhere in Oregon, Dana Andrews is running a mule-train express service and white people are starting to settle down in the area. Relations with the local Native Americans are tense (and yes, the film has the usual racist subplot of a vicious attack on the settlement). Andrews is juggling his business responsibilities while also becoming romantically entangled with one if not two local women (including Susan Haywood who is betrothed to the local banker, a friend but a serious problem gambler - Brian Donlevy). He's also endlessly fighting with doltish heavy Ward Bond who causes trouble for everyone. But Andrews is restless and all these subplots resolve themselves with his departure from the town with Hoagy Carmichael in tow (he who had been singing throughout the film). Above average western from Jacques Tourneur.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

Lavishly mounted Western by Jacques Tourneur, better known for his noir films

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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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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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
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