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Release Date:
22 February 1953 (USA) moreTagline:
Built by bullets, dynamite, and blood-stained spikes!Plot:
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
The "Lone Ranger" as a bad guy! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Sterling Hayden | ... | Capt. John Nelson | |
| Eve Miller | ... | Barbara Bruce | |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Cal Bruce | |
| Harry Shannon | ... | Smokestack, Train Engineer | |
| Tom Fadden | ... | Gus Gustavson, Train Fireman | |
| Reed Hadley | ... | Bill Quantrill | |
| Douglas Fowley | ... | Max Janus | |
| Robert Keys | ... | Lt. Sam Stanton (as Bob Keys) | |
| Irving Bacon | ... | Telegrapher Casey | |
| Myron Healey | ... | Morey | |
| James Griffith | ... | Joe Farley, Railroad guard | |
| Clayton Moore | ... | Henchman Stone | |
| Jonathan Hale | ... | Railroad President Sherman Johnson |
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Anachronisms: In an establishing shot of the U.S. Capitol building, the dome is shown as completed. The dome was not finished until 1863, several years after the time of the movie. moreQuotes:
Smokestack: It looks like we're already in the war everybody keeps talking about.Capt. John Nelson: No, this is worse than war. In a war, at least you know who you're fighting.
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I can't recall Clayton Moore as anyone but the "brave masked man," but here he is as a bad guy with no mask. I'd say that counts as irony.
Also: who ever heard of a main character named "Mr. Bruce" in the Westerns. I think I know the source of the name, as my dad wrote the script. The same goes for the daughter, Barbara. If they had a daughter, my folks planned to name her Barbara. Three years later, they did and my sister's name is Barbara.
The memorable quotes struck a chord with me, especially when Mr. Bruce says that no one pushes him around -- except his daughter and his wife. Such dry humor was a hallmark of my father and I miss it and, of course, him.