Drama · Western
Union Pacific
"Union Pacific" is coming!
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Top Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
Mollie Monahan
Joel McCrea
Jeff Butler
Akim Tamiroff
Fiesta
Robert Preston
Dick Allen
Lynne Overman
Leach Overmile
Brian Donlevy
Sid Campeau
Robert Barrat
Duke Ring
Anthony Quinn
Cordray
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Production
Paramount PicturesReviews
John Chard
7/106/4/2019
There's nothing like hearing an engine whistle in the still night. Union Pacific is directed by Cecil B. DeMille (aided by others due to illness) and based upon the novel Trouble Shooter, written by Ernest Haycox. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff and Lynne Overman. Story is a fictionalised account of the building of the railroad across the American West, encompassing the trials, tribulations and rivalries that formed as history was being made. "The legend of Union Pacific is the drama of a nation, young, tough, prodigal and invincible, conquering with an iron highroad the endless reaches of the West. For the West is America's Empire, and only yesterday Union Pacific was the West". A big production that went down a storm at the
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