剧情简介
1946美国动作爱情片《峡谷航道》由Jacques Tourneur导演,达纳·安德鲁斯主演,影片讲述的是:
Jacques Tourneur at work in color on Western landscapes is something to behold The credits roll over a matte of a damp day in Portland slanting rooftops a ship’s halfseen mast boards over a muddy street that’s practically a Grafström the Oregon Trail that follows is finelydrawn watercolor The nascent commune of Jacksonville would be Fordian except that Dana Andrews’ negation of piety A man can choose his own gods and Andy Devine’s acknowledgement of Indian rights We’re on their land They ain’t likely to forget that challenge Manifest Destiny Overlapping triangles AndrewsSusan HaywardPatricia Roc AndrewsHaywardBrian Donlevy AndrewsRocVictor Cutler HaywardDonlevyRose Hobart Hoagy Carmichael with mandolin amid the ramblers and settlers is wastrel commentator mediator and voyeur a little store and lots of time The cabinrising sequence tips its hat to Hathaway’s Trail of the Lonesome Pine and was studied by Weir The wedding bash celebrates wholeness but these are forces in tenuous balance Donlevy voices Tourneur’s ambivalence The illusion of peace is upon it moments before the Indians materialize via a single reverse shot that seems to introduce a parallel world Another spaceexpanding reverse shot this time embodying tensions from within rather than from without takes place right before Andrews’ brawl with Ward Bond cutting from a mediumshot of the two at the saloon counter to another revealing the townspeople in the wings waiting for the spectacle The fight remarkably bloody and ugly hinges on the haunted image of the disoriented Bond smashing his fist into a wooden pole Hayward sits with the cheering crowd A film of thin margins The saloon doubles as a hanging courtroom the garden becomes an inferno The view of a dazed Roc wandering in the woods after the slaughter is from I Walked with a Zombie and finds its way into Demme’s Beloved Stars in My Crown revisits the territory with hope for harmony but Wichita and Great Day in the Morning know better