Night Passage (1957)

24/07/1957 (US)•Western•1h 30m

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This was the night when the naked fury of the McLaines flamed out with consuming vengeance across a terrorized land!

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Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.

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James Stewart
Grant McLaine
Audie Murphy
The Utica Kid
Dan Duryea
Whitey Harbin
Dianne Foster
Charlotte Drew
Elaine Stewart
Verna Kimball
Brandon De Wilde
Joey Adams
Jay C. Flippen
Ben Kimball
Herbert Anderson
Will Renner
Robert J. Wilke
Concho

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A review by John Chard

6.5.0

Written by John Chard on Jul 14, 2015

Funny Man. As many Western fans know, Night Passage was all set up to be the sixth genre collaboration between director Anthony Mann and actor James Stewart. After a run of successful and genre defining "adult" Westerns, the prospect of another was mouth watering to the genre faithful. The promise of something good was further boosted by the names of others involved in the project. The screenplay is written by Borden Chase (Red River/Winchester '73), cinematographer was William H. Daniels (The Far Country), the score is from Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon/Giant) and joining Stewart in the cast...