---
title: 'Canyon Passage (1946)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jacques Tourneur'
released: '1946-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 93
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/canyon-passage-1946'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038395/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Canyon Passage (1946)

1946 · 93 min · Drama, Western · United States


## Synopsis

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 for the song "Ole Buttermilk Sky" sung in the film by Carmichael.

## Credits

- **Original Music Composer:** [Hoagy Carmichael](https://cinepixo.com/people/hoagy-carmichael)
- **Director:** [Jacques Tourneur](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-tourneur)
- **Screenplay:** [Ernest Pascal](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-pascal)
- **Producer:** [Walter Wanger](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-wanger)
- **Director of Photography:** [Edward Cronjager](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-cronjager)
- **Editor:** [Milton Carruth](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-carruth)

## Cast

- [Harry Shannon](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-shannon)
- [Patricia Roc](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-roc)
- [Onslow Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/onslow-stevens)
- [Lloyd Bridges](https://cinepixo.com/people/lloyd-bridges)
- [Hoagy Carmichael](https://cinepixo.com/people/hoagy-carmichael)
- [Fay Holden](https://cinepixo.com/people/fay-holden)
- [Brian Donlevy](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-donlevy)
- [Andy Devine](https://cinepixo.com/people/andy-devine)
- [Chief Yowlachie](https://cinepixo.com/people/chief-yowlachie)
- [Ward Bond](https://cinepixo.com/people/ward-bond)
- [Stanley Ridges](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-ridges)
- [Rose Hobart](https://cinepixo.com/people/rose-hobart)
- [Dana Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/dana-andrews)
- [Halliwell Hobbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/halliwell-hobbes)
- [Susan Hayward](https://cinepixo.com/people/susan-hayward)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/canyon-passage-1946
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