Union Pacific Movie Review 1939

Full DeMille treatment highlights this saga about the building of America's first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea) is the construction overseer who must battle saboteurs and Indians (although the U.S. Cavalry does arrive to save the day). He also gets to fall for self-sufficient postmistress Mollie Monahan (Stanwyck). DeMille borrowed the actual golden spike used to drive in the last rail in 1869 for his reenactment of the completion celebration. Based on the book "Trouble Shooters" by Ernest Haycox.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 136 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Westerns, Trains

Screenplay

Walter DeLeon, Jesse Lasky, C. Gardner Sullivan

Cast

Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, Robert Barrat, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker, Evelyn Keyes, Regis Toomey

Cinematography

Victor Milner

Director

Cecil B. DeMille

Producer

Cecil B. DeMille, Paramount Pictures