FEARMAKERS CINEMA OF DANA ANDREWS

A lobby card for THE CROWDED SKY from a deleted scene showing what looks like the wedding party of Rhonda Fleming and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., which makes no sense since their marriage was supposed to be kept secret except for their friend Caesar (Ed Kemmer).

Dana Andrews questions Gene Tierney's title character in LAURA, before he realizes "dames are always pulling a switch on you."

By far the best lobby card from THE CROWDED SKY, showing John Kerr punching Dana Andrews, co-pilot socking pilot, isn't in the film since the moment is more close-up and at an angle, so this must have come from a still photographer as Dana recovers below. 

Another screen capture from the opening of CANYON PASSAGE showing Dana Andrews riding in soaking wet from the Northwestern rain into Oregon, where the movie's both filmed and takes place.

Our second capture from the Kino Lorber Blu Ray of Jacques Tourneur's gorgeous Western CANYON PASSAGE has Dana Andrews riding into town in the rain at the film's opening.

Dana Andrews stands firm all though CANYON RIVER, and here's the first shot from the Kino Lorber Blu Ray that just came out on Tuesday, and is worth the time and purchase.

Finally, Dana Andrews's greatest Western, CANYON PASSAGE, directed by his future CURSE OF THE DEMON and THE FEARMAKERS collaborator Jacques Tourneur, fresh from horror b-pictures for Val Lewton, is on Blu Ray... for a while only available on DVD with another Western, or a Spanish Blu Ray import that was good, but this will be better: although not the cover, which, as proven below, are always superior when foreign.

"What kind of animals are those?" is what Dana Andrews shouts at a trio of hot-rodders in HOT RODS TO HELL after car moll Mimsy Farmer throws a full can of beer at Dana's son, leaving his daughter Laurie Mock stunned by her new desert-dwelling contemporaries.

A scene and scenario straight out of GIANT in THE CROWDED SKY has Dana Andrews as a lifelong airline pilot forcing his frowning toddler son to get used to flying on a carnival plane ride, like when Rock Hudson throws his wailing, tortured only son on a horse.

Dana Andrews and John Kerr at the tail-end of THE CROWDED SKY: Dana saved the plane from crashing, but it was his fault the bird almost went down in the first place, and he's getting guilted into submission by Kerr's bitter and dickish co-pilot.

A miscast John Kerr, supposedly having flown "over a million miles" with Dana Andrews yet is hardly past his twenties, with character-actor Joe Mantell, channeling Henny Youngman and  Jimmy Durante, as the doomed throttle jockey in THE CROWDED SKY.

Dana Andrews faces proverbial-spouting Ed Prentiss in THE CROWDED SKY: Dana's a pilot who the brass wants as more brass; but pilots will be pilots, especially Dana, who's played plenty.