Union Pacific (1939)

Directed by

Cecil B. DeMille

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 80 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A story of building the Union Pacific Railroad across the American West. The film follows civil engineers and a love triangle as they face obstacles from nature and outlaws.

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What happens

Union Pacific is a 1939 American Western drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Robert Preston. Based on the 1936 novel Trouble Shooter by Western fiction author Ernest Haycox, the film is about the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across the American West. Haycox based his novel upon the experiences of civil engineer Charles H. Sharman, who worked on the railroad from its start in Omaha, Nebraska in 1866 until the golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869 to commemorate the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. The film recreates the event using the same 1869 golden spike, on loan from Stanford University. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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