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1941

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While Vance Shaw gives up outlawing to go to work for the telegraph company, his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City. Read more

Starring	Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Barton MacLane
Director	Fritz Lang
Genres	Action/Adventure

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While Vance Shaw gives up outlawing to go to work for the telegraph company, his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City.

Starring	Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Barton MacLane
Director	Fritz Lang
Studio	OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 21 Feb 2005 Production year: 1941

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German émigré director Fritz Lang seemed comfortable out west, and this movie followed quickly on the heels of his Return of Frank James. Today these films seem a little tame, and this tale of the building of the telegraph line between Omaha, Nebraska, and Salt Lake City, Utah, suffers from being undercast there's a particularly uncharismatic lead in Robert Young, a phlegmatic Randolph Scott as a reforming outlaw and a notably uninteresting leading lady in Virginia Gilmore. But the set pieces are done with bravura and the cinematography is ravishing. Not to be confused with Cecil B DeMille's better (and black-and-white) Union Pacific.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Perhaps the most memorable moment in this fine and feisty Western comes with the superb 180-degree pan which starts at... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
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