Canyon Passage is a 1946 Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and set in frontier Oregon. Featuring love triangles and a Native American uprising, it was adapted from the Saturday Evening Post novel Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox. Hoagy Carmichael and Jack Brooks were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Ole Buttermilk Sky". According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, the film was a huge success. In 1856, ambitious freight company and store owner Logan Stuart agrees to escort Lucy Overmire home to the settlement of Jacksonville, Oregon along with his... latest shipment. Lucy is engaged to Logan's best friend, George Camrose . The night before they depart, however, Logan has to defend himself from a sneak attack in his hotel room; though it is too dark to be sure, he believes his assailant is Honey Bragg . Later, he explains to Susan that he once saw Bragg leaving the vicinity of two murdered miners. Despite Logan's unwillingness to accuse Bragg , Bragg apparently wants to take no chances.
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| Release date: | July 17, 1946 |
| Directed by: | Jacques Tourneur |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Producer: | Walter Wanger |
| Music by: | Frank Skinner |
| Genre: | Action, Western |