Night Passage

Eighty-three minutes into the film, a bullet hole suddenly appears on a steel cable car right behind Charlie as she ducks bullets with Grant.

Charlie looks behind her, apparently reacting to the sound of the bullet hitting the car - but there is no sound whatsoever.

This is a good western, though it lacks the atmosphere and pace Anthony Mann (originally slated to direct) would have brought to it. Then again, there was a reason he didn't direct it.

There are a lot of good things in "Night Passage". It's a good looking movie with terrific location photography.

This one is Sure to Disappoint Everyone, except maybe those that will give it a Pass because of the Wide-Wide-Screen, Technicolor, and Accordion Music Lovers.Because there's Nothing Here to Please James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, or Western Movie Fans in General.

There are a few of very necessary things to remember when creating a Western especially back when Westerns were a thriving genre. There are A LOT of them and some of them are spectacular and fans of Westerns are a very particular sort and if you don't give us what we want...

The quite interesting first camera movements gave the impression that this experimental movie would be very special. Unfortunately, it is not the case.

Best known as the film that ended the great Anthony Mann/Jimmy Stewart partnership. Mann either got in an argument with Stewart, hated the script or hated co-star Audie Murphy, or all of the above.

Somewhat obscure and unheralded,NIGHT PASSAGE is not one of James Stewart's better known westerns.It apparently was not a particularly pleasant production either,with Stewart's long time directorial collaborator Anthony Mann resigning his post early on after concerns over the script and main co-star (Audie Murphy).

Night Passage comes across as one of those sparsely-seen, little-known American films of old that wouldn't be particularly hindered in any way by a remake. With a bleaker tone; villains whom might come across as a little more sadistic than they do here and a more convincing lead in the role of a former scoundrel-gone-straight, whom it is needs to be entrusted with a large amount of money, you might be looking at an interestingly rounded effort.

My title summarizes the romantic aspect of this yarn in a nutshell. There are 2 lead women, both with tenuous connections with Stewart's character(Grant).