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Some of the fabrications are reasonably white. No more than standard hokum is transfused into healthy Dana by inventing Hero Alan Ladd, even though he practically crowds Author Dana (Brian Donlevy) off the screen. And since Mr. Ladd is on deck, love interest (Esther Fernandez) has to be expected, though Author Dana and his shipmates somehow did without...
...Oregon of 1856-ah, those were the days!-life was chock-full of excitement: barroom brawling, gunplay, gold prospecting, gambling, whizzing tommyhawks and flaming arrows, sudden romance and sudden death. Canyon Passage has all this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls, the superb outdoor...
John Lord O'Brian...
Roland Lord O'Brian...
...Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...