Canyon Passage

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850’s frontier Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line. The film was adapted from the 1945 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.

Tourneur sets in motion a complex array of subplots and side characters—including an inquisitive entertainer (Hoagy Carmichael), an icy saloon matron (Rose Hobart), and her cardsharp husband (Onslow Stevens)—that offers a quasi- sociological view of frontier life. The relentless drinking, gambling, gunplay, and battles with Native Americans blend with struggles for love and money to evoke a raw and violent culture that plays, in the year after the Second World War ended, as utterly contemporary; avoiding history and politics, Tourneur serves up, in a dreamlike Technicolor glow, a pastoral film noir.

Richard Brody, The New Yorker

One of the most mysterious and exquisite examples of the Western genre ever made.

Martin Scorsese

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