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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 24 July, 1957 DVD Release : 06 May, 2003 |
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Night Passage description 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 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | COLORADO, JAMES STEWART AND AN ACCORDION DON'T MAKE A MOVIE |
| In consequence of a very weak screenplay, NIGHT PASSAGE is the kind of movie you forget in two days. If you are a movie buff, you'll maybe remember in a few years two or three scenes of the film like the verbal duels between Audie Murphy and Dan Duryea or James Stewart singing with his accordion but that's about all, I'm afraid. I now understand why Anthony Mann left this production after the first day of shooting.
Many characters of NIGHT PASSAGE don't have any consistency at all. For instance, can someone tell me what's the exact function of Miss Vittles, the old lady with the jennies, in the film apart of saying hello to James Stewart and indicating him a shortcut through the mountain. And Charlotte Drew, is she in love with James Stewart or Audie Murphy ? And what are the psychological motivations of Verna Kimball ? And ... so on. I say it again, this is not director James Neilson's fault if NIGHT PASSAGE is nothing else than an average western. Neilson filmed the Colorado sceneries with professionalism and humbleness, NIGHT PASSAGE was his first movie and he dedicated most of his career to television afterwards. No, it's entirely due to the script's weakness. However, there were a few good ideas, not exploited, in it, like the rivalry between the two brothers or the metaphor of the tunnel in the mountain, excavated by miners. Too bad. A DVD zone could have been much better. |
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