

Western Union
A 20th Century-Fox Encore Hit !
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.
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- Language
- English
- loyalty
- engineer
- outlaw
- doctor
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR21 Feb 1941
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG21 Feb 1941
FranceFR
- Theatrical14 Apr 1948
GermanyDE
- Theatrical8 Nov 1949
NetherlandsNL
- PhysicalDVD21 Feb 2005
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Western Union was released on 21 February 1941.
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2- W7/10
Wuchak
11/22/2020
_**Adventures while setting up the telegraph line on the Great Plains**_ As the Civil War breaks out in 1861, a former outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins the team wiring what is now Nebraska and Wyoming for telegraph service. Dean Jagger plays the executive of the project while Robert Young is on hand as a “tenderfoot” from back East. Meanwhile Virginia Gilmore plays the potential romantic interest of the good-badman (…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
4/16/2023
I wonder if Fritz Lang had these three imposed on him by the studio system or whether he chose them? Anyway, sadly the folks we have leading this interesting, pioneering, adventure don't really manage to raise the film from a rather procedural mediocrity - despite this being quite a fascinating story of determination and diplomacy. We start with "Shaw" (Randolph Scott) discovering the injured "Creighton" (Dean Jagger…
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