Night Passage (film)

Night Passage is a 1957 Western film starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy.

Dimitri Tiomkin scored the film, and cowrote the songs Follow the River and You Cant Get Far Without a Railroad with Ned Washington, which were performed by James Stewart himself. The film also offered Stewart the rare opportunity to play the accordion, an instrument he had played since childhood. However, his accordion playing was rerecorded by a professional during postproduction. The film was the first to utilize the Technirama process by Technicolor. This process helped make the blue skies crisper and brighten the autumn footage photographed by cinematographer William H. Daniels. The railroad scenes were filmed at the Durango amp Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, Colorado, using Denver amp Rio Grande Western Railroad K28 Class steam locomotive 476 which still operates in excursion service today. Though not as memorable as other StewartMann films, Night Passage was a commercial success upon its release and has become a staple of cable television.On the way to meet his former boss, railroad tycoon Ben Kimball Jay C. Flippen, Grant McLaine Stewart rescues a young boy, Joey Adams Brandon deWilde, from Concho Robert J. Wilke. Ben informs Grant that his payroll has been robbed several times already by a gang led by Whitey Harbin Dan Duryea and the Utica Kid Murphy. If Bens workers dont get paid soon, they will all leave. Grant accepts the job of taking 10,000 to them by train. ........

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