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Director
  
Ray Nazarro

Producer
  
Walter Wanger

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Romance, Western

Cinematography
  
Harry Neumann

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
February 22, 1953 (1953-02-22)

Writer
  
Daniel B. Ullman (adapted from his play)

Cast
  
Sterling Hayden
(Capt. John Nelson),
Eve Miller
(Barbara Bruce),
Barton MacLane
(Cal Bruce),
Harry Shannon
(Smokestack the Train Engineer),
Tom Fadden
(Gus Gustavson the Train Fireman),
Reed Hadley
(Bill Quantrill)

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Tagline
  
Built by bullets, dynamite, and blood-stained spikes!

Kansas Pacific is a 1953 U.S. Cinecolor Western film released by Allied Artists Pictures and directed by Ray Nazarro. It stars Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller. The film offers a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s just prior to the American Civil War. In the film the building of the railroad in Kansas is opposed by sympathizers of the Confederacy.

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General Winfield Scott sends a Corps of Engineers captain (Hayden) incognito to complete the railroad in order to supply western outposts when the anticipated war starts. Opposing the railway is Confederate William Quantrill (Reed Hadley), whose mission is to stop or delay the railway from being completed.

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The rights to the film are currently in the public domain.

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Production

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The movie was filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch and the Sierra Railroad in what is now Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown, California. Walter Mirisch of Allied Artists had Walter Wanger's name put on the picture as a producer, although he was in prison for shooting agent Jennings Lang, whom he believed to be having an affair with his wife, Joan Bennett. Thanks to Mirisch, Wanger received a producer's billing, salary and profit participation.

Plot

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Set prior to the Civil War but after the South has seceded from the U.S., Kansas Pacific centres of the efforts to build a railroad across Kansas toward the West Coast. Southern sympathizers attempt to sabotage the railroad construction efforts so Army Captain John Nelson, played by Sterling Hayden, is brought in to keep the project going. Captain Nelson must not only contend with the efforts of the saboteurs but also try to romance the railroad foreman's daughter, Barbara Bruce, who is played by Eve Miller. This film also features Clayton Moore, best known for his roles in films and on television of The Lone Ranger.


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