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Audie Murphy, Brandon De Wilde, Dan Duryea

Thanks to ultracrisp Technirama photography of great mountainside and river gorge locations in Colorado, Night Passage is often terrific to look at; you can almost feel the autumn sun and brisk...( read more  read more... ) air. This should have been another classic Western pairing James Stewart with director Anthony Mann. But after choosing the locations, cast, and crew, and directing the precredit sequence, Mann abruptly resigned. He found Borden Chase's screenplay an "incoherent" rehash of relationships and setups from their previous films, nor was he encouraged by Stewart's determination to play the accordion and sing. Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner--Audie Murphy's "The Utica Kid"--escape. The two cross paths again in a ghost town where Dan Duryea, doing a zany version of his loony outlaw from Winchester '73, has holed up with his gang. Replacement director James Neilson, a newcomer destined for bland Disney servitude, fosters a lot of flatfooted standing-around. --Richard T. Jameson

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Unrated, 91 min.

Directed by: James Neilson

Release Date: July 24, 1957

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DVD Release Date: May 6, 2003

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  • 01MovieMan
    May 12, 2008
    01MovieMan
    This is a good movie
  • lipanwrangler
    February 29, 2008
    lipanwrangler
    Heart wrenching. I love you Jimmy!
  • conagher1880
    October 22, 2007
    conagher1880
    Two honest to God war heroes in the same western? Who could ask for more?
  • wa9ffl
    September 15, 2007
    wa9ffl
    Excellent pair of actors.
  • bertaelvis8
    May 5, 2007
    bertaelvis8
    great western with Stewart and Murphy.
  • phadraig
    April 16, 2007
    phadraig
    james stewart on good form....
  • smitten4u5
    December 27, 2006
    smitten4u5
    I am a Western buff, I love James Stewart
  • sidney0228
    December 23, 2006
    sidney0228
    another classic with Audie Murphy and James stewart

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