Western Union
A 20th Century-Fox Encore Hit !
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2/21/1941Runtime
95 minsGenres
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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
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A Classical Hollywood western about building the telegraph line across America, driven by the interplay between a reformed outlaw and an Eastern engineer learning the frontier. It's a work story at heart, optimistic, rousing, and focused on the human endeavor of connecting a nation.
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Robert Young
Richard Blake
Randolph Scott
Vance Shaw
Dean Jagger
Edward Creighton
Virginia Gilmore
Sue Creighton
John Carradine
Doc Murdoch
Chill Wills
Homer Kettle
Slim Summerville
Herman, called "Cookie"
Barton MacLane
Jack Slade
Russell Hicks
Provisional Governor
Victor Kilian
Charlie
Minor Watson
Pat Grogan
George Chandler
Herb
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