Western Union
1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had an accident with a horse. In 1861, Vance regenerates and is hired to work for the Western Union with the team that is installing the poles and cable from Omaha to Salt Lake City. Vance and the engineer from Harvard Richard Blake flirt with the gorgeous Edward's sister Sue Creighton and she chooses Vance. However, his past haunts him when the outlaw Jack Slade steals the Western Union cattle disguised of Indians.
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Robert Young · Randolph Scott · Dean Jagger · Virginia Gilmore · John Carradine · Slim Summerville · Chill Wills · Barton MacLane · Russell Hicks · Victor Kilian · Minor Watson · George Chandler · Chief John Big Tree · Chief Thundercloud · Dick Rich · Addison Richards · Irving Bacon
Soundtrack David Buttolph
Screenplay Robert Carson · Zane Grey
Cinematography Edward Cronjager · Allen M. Davey
Original title Western Union
6.4
680 votes (FilmAffinity)
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