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Kansas Pacific (1953) -- With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.

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Writer:
Daniel B. Ullman (written by)
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Release Date:
22 February 1953 (USA) more
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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 synopsis
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Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
73 min
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Color (Cinecolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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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. more
Quotes:
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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12 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
All the odds were against building that railroad., 12 April 2003
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Author: tmwest from S. Paulo, Brazil

In this well made western, the builders of the railroad have a problem: the civil war will start at any moment, and the sympathizers of the south will do everything they can to sabotage it. After many incidents they go to Washington to ask for the army to help them, but as the war had not started, they send only one man:Sterling Hayden, and he sure knows how to deal with it. Very entertaining, worth seeing for anybody who likes westerns

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