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Canyon Passage is a 1946 American Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977), and set in the American frontier era of the old Oregon Territory in the mid-1850s. It stars Dana Andrews (1909-1992), Susan Hayward (1917-1975), and Brian Donlevy (1901-1972). Featuring love triangles and an Indian natives uprising, the film was adapted from the 1945 novelette in the Saturday Evening Post magazine of Canyon Passage by Ernest Haycox (1899-1950), Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1951), (music) and Jack Brooks (lyrics) were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Oscar") for the popular tune of "Ole Buttermilk Sky" sung by country-western music singer Carmichael of the late 1940s and 1950s.