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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Chief John Big Tree
- Chief Spotted Horse
- (as Chief Big Tree)
C.E. Anderson
- Old Timer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first transcontinental telegraph (completed 10/24/1861 ) was a line that connected the existing network in the eastern US to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha (NE) and Carson City (NV)., via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the US. It was primarily the work of the newly-founded Western Union Telegraph Company (1851; merged with another in 1856).
- GoofsDuring the speeches before they start stringing the telegraph wires, all the flags are 48-star flags. There were only 35 states in the Union in 1861.
- Quotes
Doc Murdoch: Can you cook lamb?
Cookie: There are nine different ways to cook mutton. And I know them all!
Homer Kettle: Never mind that! Do you cook it with the hair on?
Cookie: I should say not!
Crowd: Hurray!
Homer Kettle: Then you're hired!
- ConnectionsEdited into Buffalo Bill (1944)
- SoundtracksGwine to Rune All Night
("De Camptown Races") (1850) (uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
Played as background music for the first scene in Omaha, Nebraska
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Western Union And Great Director = Western Poetry
No one ever really believed that Randolf Scott was a gun toter; he seemed too gentle for that. But the veneer of respectability he gave to his roles helped reinforce the western morality of good superceding evil. Nowhere is this poetry more evident as in Western Union [1941], directed by one of film noir's most gifted geniuses Fritz Lang, here working equally adeptly in colour. The shot of unfinished telegraph lines snaking away into twilight oblivion leaves lasting impressions.
This western prophecies the long professional relationship between producer Nat Holt and Randolf Scott which ran from 1946 and turned out cliché-westerns which weren't cliches at the time, and which, with practice improved till there was a kind of visual poetry about them. This isn't the history of Western Union, the way the western isn't the history of the old west. But it seems to relate a kind of truth, and that's what matters.
This western prophecies the long professional relationship between producer Nat Holt and Randolf Scott which ran from 1946 and turned out cliché-westerns which weren't cliches at the time, and which, with practice improved till there was a kind of visual poetry about them. This isn't the history of Western Union, the way the western isn't the history of the old west. But it seems to relate a kind of truth, and that's what matters.
- t.mcparland-2
- Sep 17, 2000
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- Zane Grey's Western Union
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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