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Winners of the West (1940)

Winners of the West poster
Directed by
Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Genre
western, action
Country
United States
Runtime
4h 07m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a western serial from 1940 about building a railroad. A ganglord tries to stop the construction and a hero fights to protect the project.

action-packedold-fashionedpulp-adventureenergeticcliffhangerdramaticserials-style

What happens

Winners of the West is a 1940 American Western film serial from Universal Pictures, directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor. It stars Dick Foran and Anne Nagel in a plot about the construction of a railroad and a local ganglord, who opposes it. It was Universal's 115th serial release (the 47th with sound). The studio had used the name for an earlier silent serial, but there are no plot similarities between the two versions. Columbia's Roar of the Iron Horse is very similar to this serial, however, and the writer George H. Plympton worked on both. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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