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List Price: $7.98 Our Price: $7.98 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1953 DVD Release : 29 March, 2005 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Fine Little "B" Railroad Western |
| You'll be surprised by this little "B" sleeper from Allied Artists. A low-key atmosphere and sincerity overcome its lack of big-name stars and small budget. Sterling Hayden underplays his role to good effect and this one sort of grows on you as it goes along.
Men are running into trouble trying to build the Kansas Pacific Railroad due to growing tensions between the North and South which will soon lead to Civil War. Quantrill (Reed Hadley) is behind most of the sabatoge and it is up to the new engineer the Army sends to get the job done and root out where the trouble is coming from. John (Sterling Hayden) is met with doubt in his ability at first from the man currently in charge, (Barton MacLane), but soon wins his trust and support with his no-nonsense approach to finishing the job. His daughter Barbara (Eve Miller) is not so easily swayed but eventually an old-fashioned unspoken romance develops when she too begins to believe in John. When the sabatoge escalates and lives are lost, it becomes a race against time to not only get the tracks laid, but keep the engines from being blown up. There are explosions and some gunplay before this sincere little western drama reaches its happy conclusion. As "B" westerns go, this one is quite good and has a low-key mood and atmosphere that works. It doesn't try to be more than it is so is very enjoyable, rising above its origins as entertainment. A "B' gem. |
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