The Pacific Northwestern: Canyon Passage (4K Restoration)
January 20, 2026
In an 1856 Oregon ablaze in iridescent technicolor, a businessman (Dana Andrews) is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line. 4K restoration.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Restless individualist Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews), general store proprietor and mule freight owner, finds himself tested at every turn: by his love of two women, his loyalty to a compulsive gambler, his yearning to be untethered while staying committed to his community. A film of sensuous melodrama and commanding set pieces (rapturous cabin raisings, fiery kangaroo courts, a suffocating barroom brawl with an imposing Ward Bond), we are simultaneously immersed in a richly woven tapestry of thorny interrelationships that lead one character to the fatalist observation that “the human race is a horrible mistake.” Deeply philosophical and haunting, Canyon Passage probes the myths of settler colonialism and the underlying values of westward expansion that, despite “best” intentions, leads towards apocalypse; “it's a thin margin, Johnny, between what could be and is.” Jacques Tourneur’s enigmatic masterpiece of painterly technicolor cinematography captures the Oregon landscape with an iridescence that shines through the frame like a stained glass window.
Saddle up your donkey and join the town’s ukulele-wielding folk singer Hoagy Carmichael and witness these ole buttermilk skies restored in 4K.
“One of the most mysterious and exquisite examples of the western genre ever made.”—Martin Scorsese
“'Canyon Passage' is about the themes that underlie the whole genre and are usually taken for granted in Westerns: the cohesion of the community; the conflict between its values and those of the individual; the defects of frontier justice; the psychological and social meaning of the westward trajectory.”—Chris Fujiwara, Jacques Tourneur: Cinema of Nightfall
- Director: Jacques Tournier
- Principal Cast: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc, Hoagy Carmichael
- Country: USA
- Year: 1946
- Running Time: 92 min.
- Producer: Walter Wanger
- Screenplay: Ernest Pascal, Ernest Haycox
- Cinematographers: Edward Cronjager
- Editors: Milton Carruth
- Music: Frank Skinner
- US Distributor: Universal Pictures