Canyon Passage

directed by Jacques Tourneur
Category: "Western"
Year of Release:1946
Date Added:12/30/2023
Date Watched:12/30/2023
Description:Based on the novel by the same name by Ernest Haycox. Businessman Logan Stuart is in love with Lucy (Susan Hayward), but she's engaged to Logan's best friend George (Brian Donlevy). George is a gambler who's been robbing his own customers to pay his debts. When one of those customers wants his money, George kills him. The other miners in town find out and arrest and try George. Logan, always faithful to his friend, helps him escape. Meanwhile, The brute Honey Bragg (Ward Bond) has killed an Indian girl and started an uprising. Logan leads the town folk to fight them. Bragg is killed by Indians, George is killed by a miner, and Logan ends up with Lucy.
My Rating:7

Reviews for Canyon Passage

Review - Canyon Passage

Things moved fast to fit the entire movie into an hour and a half. If I hadn't read the book first, I would have given the movie a lower rating for lack of character and plot development. But I thought it was well cast—Andrews did good as Logan and Hayward was lovely as Lucy (even if she wasn't on screen much).

Reviewed by Roger on 2023-12-30 18:06:52

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