Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage
US theatrical poster
Directed byJacques Tourneur
Written byErnest Pascal
Ernest Haycox (novel)
Produced byWalter Wanger
StarringDana Andrews
Brian Donlevy
Susan Hayward
Patricia Roc
CinematographyEdward Cronjager
Edited byMilton Carruth
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • July 15, 1946 (1946-07-15) (Portland, Oregon)
  • July 17, 1946 (1946-07-17) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,623,925[1]
Box office$4,263,651[1]

Canyon Passage is a 1946 American Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and set in frontier Oregon.[2] It stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward and Brian Donlevy. Featuring love triangles and an Indian uprising, 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."

  1. ^ a b Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p443
  2. ^ Fujiwara, Chris (1998). Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall. McFarland. pp. 125–. ISBN 9780786404919. Retrieved December 29, 2012.