Underplayed Gems

Kansas Pacific (1953)

Kansas Pacific poster
Directed by
Ray Nazarro
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 13m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Just before the Civil War, a Union captain is sent undercover to oversee the building of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Southern sympathizers try to stop the railroad from being completed. The captain faces sabotage and conflict while racing against time.

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What happens

Kansas Pacific is a 1953 American Cinecolor Western film released by Allied Artists Pictures and directed by Ray Nazarro. It stars Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller. While the film was released in 1953, the title screen clearly states "Copyright MCMLII" (1952). The film offers a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the early 1860s just prior to the American Civil War. In the film the building of the railroad in Kansas is opposed by sympathizers of the South before it forms the Confederacy. General-in-Chief of the United States Army Winfield Scott sends a Corps of Engineers captain (Hayden) incognito to complete the railroad in order to supply western Union outposts when the anticipated war starts. Opposing the railway is Confederate William Quantrill (Reed Hadley), whose mission is to stop or delay the railway from being completed. Miller plays the only female character within the entire movie. This film also features Clayton Moore. Andrew V. McLaglen is credited as assistant director in the opening credits of this movie. The rights to the film are currently in the public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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