Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage is a 1946 Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and set in frontier Oregon. It starred Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward and Brian Donlevy. Featuring love triangles and a Native American uprising, it was adapted from the Saturday Evening Post novel Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox. Hoagy Carmichael music and Jack Brooks lyrics were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for Ole Buttermilk Sky.

On their journey, Logan and Lucy become attracted to each other. They stop one night at the homestead of Ben Dance Andy Devine and his family. There, Logan introduces Lucy to his girlfriend, Caroline Marsh Patricia Roc.In Jacksonville, Logan tries to get George to stop playing poker with and losing to professional gambler Jack Lestrade Onslow Stevens, even giving him 2000 to pay off his debts, but George is more interested in the prospect of getting rich quick without hard work. What Logan does not know is that George has been stealing gold dust left in his safekeeping by the miners to pay some of his losses. George also has a secret he is keeping from Lucy he keeps propositioning Lestrades wife Marta Rose Hobart, though she shows no interest in him. ........

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