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Writers:
Zane Grey (novel)
Robert Carson (screenplay)
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Release Date:
21 February 1941 (USA) more
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Plot:
Vance Shaw gives up outlawing and goes to work for the telegraph company; his brother Jack Slade leads... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Robert Young ... Richard Blake

Randolph Scott ... Vance Shaw
Dean Jagger ... Edward Creighton
Virginia Gilmore ... Sue Creighton
John Carradine ... Doc Murdoch
Slim Summerville ... Cookie
Chill Wills ... Homer Kettle
Barton MacLane ... Jack Slade
Russell Hicks ... Provisional Governor, Territory of Nebraska
Victor Kilian ... Charlie
Minor Watson ... Pat Grogan
George Chandler ... Herb
Chief John Big Tree ... Chief Spotted Horse (as Chief Big Tree)
Chief Thundercloud ... Indian leader
Dick Rich ... Porky
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Zane Grey's Western Union (Australia)
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Runtime:
95 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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Trivia:
Originally, Laird Cregar was cast in this film in an undetermined role (possibly that of Doc Murdoch), but was unable to do the film due to an unfinished other project. He was replaced by George 'Gabby' Hayes, but Hayes then became ill and was himself replaced. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Creighton leaves on the stage after his accident, his left ankle is bandaged and he is favoring his left foot. When we later see him walk with a cane, he is favoring his right foot. more
Quotes:
[last lines]
[listening to the clack of the telegraph]
Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
Edward Creighton: It's music.
Sue Creighton: I wish Shaw could hear it.
Edward Creighton: It's a long way from Salt Lake City to Boot Hill in Elkville, but I think he can hear it.
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Buffalo Bill (1944) more
Soundtrack:
The Little Brown Jug more

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9 out of 14 people found the following review useful.
Bit of Movie Trivia, 27 August 2005
Author: hugedeal from United States

A good part of this movie was shot on location in southern Utah. When Fritz Lang arrived and saw the local Indians who were hired for the movie they were short stocky built people like many of the tribes in the southwestern area of the United States. This did not meet Langs idyllic picture of the tall thin and muscular Indian he had cultivated while he was still in Europe where he was already fascinated with the American west and its's western films. He promptly fired all of the local tribes people and had extras sent from central casting in Hollywood, most of whom were Anglo, to meet his view of Native Americans.

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