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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Chief John Big Tree
- Chief Spotted Horse
- (as Chief Big Tree)
C.E. Anderson
- Old Timer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first transcontinental telegraph (completed 10/24/1861 ) was a line that connected the existing network in the eastern US to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha (NE) and Carson City (NV)., via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the US. It was primarily the work of the newly-founded Western Union Telegraph Company (1851; merged with another in 1856).
- GoofsDuring the speeches before they start stringing the telegraph wires, all the flags are 48-star flags. There were only 35 states in the Union in 1861.
- Quotes
Doc Murdoch: Can you cook lamb?
Cookie: There are nine different ways to cook mutton. And I know them all!
Homer Kettle: Never mind that! Do you cook it with the hair on?
Cookie: I should say not!
Crowd: Hurray!
Homer Kettle: Then you're hired!
- ConnectionsEdited into Buffalo Bill (1944)
- SoundtracksGwine to Rune All Night
("De Camptown Races") (1850) (uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
Played as background music for the first scene in Omaha, Nebraska
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pretty good western
Hard to believe this was directed by Fritz Lang since he mostly directed crime dramas and mysteries. This movie has a cast that includes Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger and John Carradine. Scott plays an outlaw who tries to go straight and leave his old gang and winds up saving Jagger's life. Jagger works for Western Union, a telegraph company that plans to have telegraphs out west. Jagger hires a lot of men to make sure it is done because they have to worry about Indian attacks and bandits. Scott is in charge of the men and Young is a telegraph expert who can't shoot a gun but can ride. Scott meets up with his old gang who want to stop them but Scott can't tell anyone. It's a pretty good western and Lang should of directed some more westerns.
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- Also known as
- Zane Grey's Western Union
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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