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Canyon Passage is a 1946 American Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and set in the American frontier era of the old Oregon Territory in the mid-1850s. It stars Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy. 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, Hoagy Carmichael, (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.