The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
With Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lupton, Stan Jones, Slim Pickens, Claude Jarman, Jr., Don Megowan, Harry Carey
Directed by Francis D. Lyon
The Great Locomotive Chase is a 1956 American adventure Western film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on the Great Locomotive Chase that occurred in 1862 during the American Civil War. Filmed in CinemaScope and in color, the film stars Fess Parker as James J. Andrews, the leader of a group of Union soldiers from various Ohio regiments who volunteered to go behind Confederate lines in civilian clothes, steal a Confederate train north of Atlanta, and drive it back to Union lines in Tennessee, tearing up railroad tracks and destroying bridges and telegraph lines along the way.
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