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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 eponymous railroad across the American West.
Union Pacific: Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston. In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
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Three years later, as the first engine, piloted by engineer Monahan, leaves Cheyenne, the Union Pacific hires trouble shooter Jeff Butler to keep order on the railroad. Jeff is faced with Indian raids and the corruption of the men by whiskey and gambling, all engineered by Campeau and his partner, Dick Allen.
Veteran Dick Allen (Robert Preston) and gambler Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy) plot to derail the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad at the behest of crooked banker Asa M. Barrows, a major...
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California. One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California.
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it.
