Western Union (1941)

19412h 38mdir. Fritz Lang, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe BrownUnited StatesWestern film

Note: this print runs 158 minutes against a recorded 96 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Slim Summerville, Chill Wills, Francis Ford, Barton MacLane

Directed by Fritz Lang, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe Brown

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Western Union is a 1941 American Western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Robert Young, Randolph Scott, and Dean Jagger. Filmed in Technicolor on location in Arizona and Utah. In Western Union, Scott plays a reformed outlaw who tries to make good by joining the team building a telegraph line across the Great Plains in 1861. Conflicts arise between the man and his former gang, as well as between the team stringing the wires and the Native Americans through whose land the new lines must run. In this regard, the film is not historically accurate, Edward Creighton was known for his honest and humane treatment of the tribes along the right of way and this was rewarded on the part of the I

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