Canyon Passage (1946)

"You see how thin the margin is." Terrific, microcosmic western deeply ambivalent about the society it's depicting and its ambitions and motivations, and also just a rousing, lush, gorgeous melodrama. Sort of a Lagrange point between WAGON MASTER and THE BIG COUNTRY.

matt lynch

"this is jacksonville, clench USA. we sail with the tide." "all americans think that. they think the tide flows forever for them but... gold veins run out, crops fail, men starve, wars come."

Josh Lewis

“this country’s big enough for more than one dream.” Coming after Jacques Tourneur’s early-year highlights Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie, and just a year before his noir masterpiece Out of the Past, his Technicolor Western Canyon Passage (1946) marks a step onto a…

Tim Fehrenbach

90/100 "Caroline, crying helps some people a lot." "Some people it doesn't help." Canyon Passage - Tourneur's first Western and his first dive into color - is a vertical Oater in terms of landscape, mood, and character. The American Northwest is a communal space,…

SilentDawn

Sob a forma de aventura, sob os contornos da epopeia, narrando os trabalhos de um herói essencialmente positivo, foi necessário para o western ter atravessado as areias do deserto, ter passado sede, ter passado fome, ter sentido medo, ter acreditado mil vezes que havia…

Bruno Andrade

Viewed with the Amazing Edith’s *Collab Film Group*. It's a thin margin, Johnny, between what could be and is. A romance adventure brought to you by French director Jaques Tourneur, Canyon Passage flaunts stunning Oregon vistas and foliage in Technicolor. The depth…

Ziglet_mir

what constitutes 'civilization'? is it held together by love, by greed, by hate, by fraternity, by liberty? or is the titular 'passage' the transition from a vast free land to a cordoned-off set of homes, towns and cities, the enshrinement of private property? the illusion…

comrade_yui

a film of so many strange and mysterious transferences - hi linnett hands his beloved mandy to the indian, logan stuart hands his gun to george primrose and has it returned to him before he leaves the town of jacksonville, two men are declared guilty by two mobs (they are)…

nrh

"Logan, would you mind having a woman on your hands?" This one took me by surprise. Right from the first scene, I was hooked. It’s a Western with some myths and truths about American settler colonialism. It starts with Logan Stuart, a freight company owner, agreeing to…

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