Night Passage (1957)
4/10
Embarrassing Waste of Talent…Definitive Missed Opportunity
29 June 2016
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. It is Overall an Embarrassment.

James Stewart seems Determined to make it work and Displays some of the Worst Overacting of His Career. Audie Murphy is Miscast and is Filmed in all the Wrong Ways and Looks like a Baby, and also gives one of His Worst Appearances in a Long Career. Dan Duryea Shouts and Screams Every Line and it is just Cringe Inducing.

Jack Elam and the rest of the Cast are Wasted in Throwaway Roles. The Dialog has No Edge and the Action is Dull. This could possibly be the Worst Western with the Most to Work With ever. A Definitive Missed Opportunity and Waste of Talent.

It's one to Avoid, for Everyone On Screen has done much Better and this is Perhaps the Worst Movie for all involved, or at least the Worst with the most Potential, and should be Ignored and Forgotten if You have any Regard for the Actors or Westerns.
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