This Western film is set in the time just before the start of the Civil War in the U. S. It's a fictional account of the Southern sympathizers working to sabotage the work to build the Kansas Pacific Railway. Sterling Hayden plays an undercover Union engineer, Capt. John Nelson, who is sent to Kansas to see the railroad completed before the start of the Civil War.
Reed Hadley plays the real renegade Confederate raider, William Quantrill, whose aim is to disrupt the project. Some of the rest of the cast will be recognized by movie buffs of the mid-20th century. Barton MacLane, Clayton Moore, Irving Bacon, James Griffith and Jonathan Hale were stalwart supporting actors of the day.
Those who enjoy history, especially of the pioneer, Western and Civil War period, may enjoy this film. Of course, with a grain of salt as to the accuracy of the plot and the fictional characters.
Reed Hadley plays the real renegade Confederate raider, William Quantrill, whose aim is to disrupt the project. Some of the rest of the cast will be recognized by movie buffs of the mid-20th century. Barton MacLane, Clayton Moore, Irving Bacon, James Griffith and Jonathan Hale were stalwart supporting actors of the day.
Those who enjoy history, especially of the pioneer, Western and Civil War period, may enjoy this film. Of course, with a grain of salt as to the accuracy of the plot and the fictional characters.