Union Pacific
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Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Written by	Walter DeLeon Jack Cunningham C. Gardner Sullivan
Starring	Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea Akim Tamiroff
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	1939
Running time	135 min.
IMDb profile

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Plot summary

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost? For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... The Union Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks UP) (NYSE: UNP), headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

Trivia

• This film is the official winner of the first ever Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, although this was awarded in retrospect at the 2002 festival. The festival's debut was to take place in 1939, but it was cancelled due to World War II. The organizers of the 2002 festival presented part of the original 1939 selection to a professional jury of six members. The films were: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La piste du nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific and Boefje.

• The world premiere in Omaha, Nebraska, was a three-day celebration that drew 250,000 people, doubling the population of the city and requiring the National Guard to help keep order. The special train en route from Hollywood to Omaha, carrying Cecil B. DeMille and stars Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, took three days and made stops along the way, drawing large crowds. The film was shown in three theaters simultaneously; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reported to have started the premiere proceedings by pressing a button in Washington, DC, which opened the civic auditorium. An ad stated that the premiere, which involved parades, radio broadcasts and a banquet, was the biggest in motion picture history. An antique train continued on a 15-day coast-to-coast promotional tour, stopping at 30 cities around the country.

• According to a news item in The Hollywood Reporter, Cecil B. DeMille directed much of the film from a stretcher, because of an operation he had months earlier. However, studio records indicate DeMille collapsed from the strain of directing three units simultaneously, and used a stretcher for about two weeks.

• The golden spike used at the ceremony to mark the end of the construction was the same spike actually used in the May 10, 1869 event, on loan from Stanford University.

• For the Indian attack on the train, Paramount hired 100 Navajo Indian extras.

• The company had rented many local Pinto horses for the filming of the Indian attack on the train. During filming, however, local cowboys had to be hired to round up the horses, as they would scatter and sometimes stampede because of the noise and confusion of these scenes--all the shooting, yelling, and yards of unfamiliar cloth on the horses, along with kettles and other implements tied to their manes and tails, made them extremely nervous and uncomfortable, and it didn't require much to make them bolt.

• In order to operate the number of trains required by the production, Paramount had to get a regulation railroad operating license from the Interstate Commerce Commission.

• Errors in geography: The chase sequence after the train robbery is shown in mountainous terrain. The robbery supposedly takes place between Cheyenne and Pine Bluffs, Wyoming (from geographic references to the train's location in the telegrapher's office). There are no mountains in this area.

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Cast

• Barbara Stanwyck .... Mollie Monahan
• Joel McCrea .... Capt. Jeff Butler
• Akim Tamiroff .... Fiesta
• Robert Preston .... Dick Allen
• Lynne Overman .... Leach Overmile
• Brian Donlevy .... Sid Campeau
• Robert Barrat .... Duke Ring (Campeau henchman)
• Anthony Quinn .... Jack Cordray (Campeau henchman)
• Stanley Ridges .... Gen. Casement
• Henry Kolker .... Asa M. Barrows (banker)
• Francis McDonald .... Gen. Grenville M. Dodge
• Willard Robertson .... Oakes Ames
• Harold Goodwin .... E.E. Calvin (telegrapher)
• Evelyn Keyes .... Mrs. Calvin
• Richard Lane .... Sam Reed

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External links

• Union Pacific at the Internet Movie Database