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Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage is a 1946 American Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and set in the American frontier era of the old Oregon Territory in the mid-1850s. It stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy. Featuring love triangles and an Indian natives uprising, the film was adapted from the 1945 novelette in the Saturday Evening Post magazine of Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox. Hoagy Carmichael, (music) and Jack Brooks (lyrics) were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Oscar") for the popular tune of "Ole Buttermilk Sky" sung by country-western music singer Carmichael of the late 1940s and 1950s.
In 1856, ambitious freight company / pack mule line and store owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) agrees to escort Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) from the bustling seaport town of Portland home to the (real life) rough-hewn mining settlement of rustic log buildings of Jacksonville, (Jackson County), in the old Oregon Territory, along with his latest shipment of goods. Lucy is engaged to Logan's best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy). The night before they depart, however, Logan has to defend himself from a sneak attack while he was sleeping in his hotel room; though it was too dark to be sure, later throwing the burglar out the broken window, but he believes his assailant is Honey Bragg (Ward Bond). Later, he explains to Lucy that he once saw Bragg leaving the vicinity of two murdered miners. Despite Logan's unwillingness to accuse Bragg directly (since he did not actually witness the crime), Bragg apparently wants to take no chances.
On their journey, Logan and Lucy become attracted to each other. They stop one night at the homestead of Ben Dance (Andy Devine) with his wife (Dorothy Peterson) and family. There, Logan introduces Lucy to his girlfriend, Caroline Marsh (Patricia Roc), whom he gives a decorative locket on a neck chain to.
Once they get to Jacksonville, Logan tries to get friend George to stop playing card games of poker with (and losing to) professional gambler Jack Lestrade (Onslow Stevens), even to advancing him / giving him $2,000 to pay off his earlier cards-playing gambling debts, but George is more interested in the prospect of getting rich quick without doing much hard work. What Logan unfortunately does not know is that friend George has been stealing gold dust from pouches left in his safekeeping by the miners to pay off some of his cards game gambling losses. George also has a secret he is keeping from fiancé Lucy; he keeps flirting with and propositioning gambler Lestrade's wife Marta (Rose Hobart) on the side, who he's attracted to, though she shows no return interest in him.
Bragg keeps trying to provoke Logan into a fight and finally succeeds. Logan wins the brawl, but he does not kill Bragg when he has the chance to finish him off. Humiliated, Bragg shortly later tries to ride Logan down in the street with his horse on his way out of town.
George Camrose decides to move away from the town to make a fresh start and finally gets Lucy to set a date and definitely agree to marry him. Logan then proposes to his own supposed girl Caroline and is accepted, much to the disappointment of Vane Blazier (Victor Cutler), Logan's employee, who is in love with Logan's girlfriend Caroline Marsh himself.
Lucy then decides to accompany Logan South along the Pacific Ocean coast to San Francisco to pick out a wedding dress. Along the way, they are ambushed by Bragg. Though their horses are shot dead, Logan and Lucy escape and return north to town, only to discover that George is now in grave trouble.
When a miner appears months earlier than George had expected and informs him that he wants to recover his pouches of gold on deposit the next day, George kills the drunk miner, worried about being exposed. His crimes are traced back to him as mule-riding musician Hi Linnet (Hoagy Carmichael) earlier happened to see through a window and saw him moving around some gold bags in his safe, stealing some gold, and the dead prospector / miner's lucky special gold nugget is found in George's possession. The locals, led by Johnny Steele (Lloyd Bridges), in an impromptu trial / hearing in the local saloon hall, find George guilty of murder and lock him up, intending a late-night lynching. However, when one of the settlers rides in with a warning that the local Indian tribes are on the warpath after Bragg had attacked and killed one of their young attractive women that he saw swimming nude in a nearby stream, Logan then helps George escape in the confusion.
Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage is a 1946 American Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and set in the American frontier era of the old Oregon Territory in the mid-1850s. It stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy. Featuring love triangles and an Indian natives uprising, the film was adapted from the 1945 novelette in the Saturday Evening Post magazine of Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox. Hoagy Carmichael, (music) and Jack Brooks (lyrics) were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Oscar") for the popular tune of "Ole Buttermilk Sky" sung by country-western music singer Carmichael of the late 1940s and 1950s.
In 1856, ambitious freight company / pack mule line and store owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) agrees to escort Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) from the bustling seaport town of Portland home to the (real life) rough-hewn mining settlement of rustic log buildings of Jacksonville, (Jackson County), in the old Oregon Territory, along with his latest shipment of goods. Lucy is engaged to Logan's best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy). The night before they depart, however, Logan has to defend himself from a sneak attack while he was sleeping in his hotel room; though it was too dark to be sure, later throwing the burglar out the broken window, but he believes his assailant is Honey Bragg (Ward Bond). Later, he explains to Lucy that he once saw Bragg leaving the vicinity of two murdered miners. Despite Logan's unwillingness to accuse Bragg directly (since he did not actually witness the crime), Bragg apparently wants to take no chances.
On their journey, Logan and Lucy become attracted to each other. They stop one night at the homestead of Ben Dance (Andy Devine) with his wife (Dorothy Peterson) and family. There, Logan introduces Lucy to his girlfriend, Caroline Marsh (Patricia Roc), whom he gives a decorative locket on a neck chain to.
Once they get to Jacksonville, Logan tries to get friend George to stop playing card games of poker with (and losing to) professional gambler Jack Lestrade (Onslow Stevens), even to advancing him / giving him $2,000 to pay off his earlier cards-playing gambling debts, but George is more interested in the prospect of getting rich quick without doing much hard work. What Logan unfortunately does not know is that friend George has been stealing gold dust from pouches left in his safekeeping by the miners to pay off some of his cards game gambling losses. George also has a secret he is keeping from fiancé Lucy; he keeps flirting with and propositioning gambler Lestrade's wife Marta (Rose Hobart) on the side, who he's attracted to, though she shows no return interest in him.
Bragg keeps trying to provoke Logan into a fight and finally succeeds. Logan wins the brawl, but he does not kill Bragg when he has the chance to finish him off. Humiliated, Bragg shortly later tries to ride Logan down in the street with his horse on his way out of town.
George Camrose decides to move away from the town to make a fresh start and finally gets Lucy to set a date and definitely agree to marry him. Logan then proposes to his own supposed girl Caroline and is accepted, much to the disappointment of Vane Blazier (Victor Cutler), Logan's employee, who is in love with Logan's girlfriend Caroline Marsh himself.
Lucy then decides to accompany Logan South along the Pacific Ocean coast to San Francisco to pick out a wedding dress. Along the way, they are ambushed by Bragg. Though their horses are shot dead, Logan and Lucy escape and return north to town, only to discover that George is now in grave trouble.
When a miner appears months earlier than George had expected and informs him that he wants to recover his pouches of gold on deposit the next day, George kills the drunk miner, worried about being exposed. His crimes are traced back to him as mule-riding musician Hi Linnet (Hoagy Carmichael) earlier happened to see through a window and saw him moving around some gold bags in his safe, stealing some gold, and the dead prospector / miner's lucky special gold nugget is found in George's possession. The locals, led by Johnny Steele (Lloyd Bridges), in an impromptu trial / hearing in the local saloon hall, find George guilty of murder and lock him up, intending a late-night lynching. However, when one of the settlers rides in with a warning that the local Indian tribes are on the warpath after Bragg had attacked and killed one of their young attractive women that he saw swimming nude in a nearby stream, Logan then helps George escape in the confusion.