Night Passage
by James Neilson
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Actor: Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster, Elaine Stewart, James StewartDirector: James Neilson
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Editor: Sherman Todd
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Writer: Borden Chase
Writer: Norman A. Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Published); English (Published)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 22770
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Night Passage
Movie Review: The End of the Line
Summary: 3 Stars
The film begins with a lone rider out west. Men are building a railroad. There is a small camp for the workers. Grant McLaine plays the accordion to entertain people. He was blacklisted by the powerful railroads. There is conflict between the wives and the hostesses. The conflict escalates. Mining goes on in the hills. A man on a horse chases a young boy, Grant gets involved. The conversations tell about the characters. Ben Kimball is in his private railroad car. There is a plan to avoid another payroll robbery. Can Grant be trusted? The train runs along the hills of Colorado following the river (level ground). The path had to be blasted from the sides of the mountain.
The band of outlaws have a hideout in a ghost town. They wait to rob the payroll train. There is conflict over strategy. Whitey abducts Kimball's wife for ransom as there is no payroll. They take Joey too. Will the workers leave without their pay? Grant McLaine infiltrates the outlaw camp, then resolves his conflict with Concho. The brothers have conflicting principles. [Singing in a crime story?] Then a new man shows up and the fight starts. There is a chase and shooting. Will somebody help Grant? The conflict is ironed out by the usual means in this western morality tale.
Note how the "Theatrical Trailer" shows carefully edited scenes. Would this kind of story have been possible in the 1940s?
Summary of Night Passage
A former railroad man guards a payroll shipment and his younger brothers gang robs it. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/06/2003 Starring: James Stewart Dianne Foster Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr Director: James NeilsonThanks 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 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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