Western Union
A 20th Century-Fox Encore Hit !
Overview
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
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Cast
Robert Young
Richard Blake
Randolph Scott
Vance Shaw
Dean Jagger
Edward Creighton
Virginia Gilmore
Sue Creighton
John Carradine
Doc Murdoch
Chill Wills
Homer Kettle
Slim Summerville
Herman, called "Cookie"
Barton MacLane
Jack Slade
Russell Hicks
Provisional Governor
Victor Kilian
Charlie
Minor Watson
Pat Grogan
George Chandler
Herb
Chief John Big Tree
Chief Spotted Horse
Chief Thundercloud
Indian Leader
Dick Rich
Porky
Addison Richards
Captain Harlow
Irving Bacon
Barber
C.E. Anderson
Old Timer
Arthur Aylesworth
Woody
Hank Bell
Telegraph Worker
Crew
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Writers
- Robert Carson,George Bruce
- Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cinematography
- Edward Cronjager,Allen M. Davey
- Composer
- David Buttolph
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Wuchak
November 22, 2020
_**Adventures while setting up the telegraph line on the Great Plains**_ As the Civil War breaks out in 1861, a former outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins the team wiring what is now Nebraska and Wyoming for telegraph service. Dean Jagger plays the executive of the project while Robert Young is on hand as a “tenderfoot” from back East. Meanwhile Virginia Gilmore plays the potential romantic interest of the good-badman (Scott) and the heroic newcomer (Young). Directed by Fritz Lang and based on t…
CinemaSerf
April 16, 2023
I wonder if Fritz Lang had these three imposed on him by the studio system or whether he chose them? Anyway, sadly the folks we have leading this interesting, pioneering, adventure don't really manage to raise the film from a rather procedural mediocrity - despite this being quite a fascinating story of determination and diplomacy. We start with "Shaw" (Randolph Scott) discovering the injured "Creighton" (Dean Jagger) whilst someone is being pursued by a posse. He helps the man to a nearby house…