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Watch: Union Pacific 1939 123movies, Full Movie Online – One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows’ agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau’s partner Dick Allen is Jeff’s war buddy and rival suitor for engineer’s daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?.
Plot: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows’ agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau’s partner Dick Allen is Jeff’s war buddy and rival suitor for engineer’s daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Westward With Mr. DeMille & The Railroad
Moving across the American wilderness, east to west, the mighty UNION PACIFIC Railroad stretches to meet its rival – the Central Pacific – taming a continent with steel rails. Overcoming Nature’s disasters, hostile natives & corrupt politicians, the engines bring with them the people whose hopes are inextricably tied into the railroad’s success or failure.

In 1939, Hollywood’s Golden Year, kingpin director Cecil B. DeMille presented his biggest, flashiest film yet. It was to be nothing less than the story of how the American West was conquered by the great railroads & her indomitable builders. To realize DeMille’s vision on the screen, Paramount allocated hundreds of extras & large coffers of money to the project. Authentic rolling stock was acquired. The president of the contemporary Union Pacific enthusiastically sent his finest track layers to work in the film. The movie would boost train wrecks (two of ‘em), Indian attacks, assorted villainies & a compelling love triangle.

DeMille demanded scrupulous attention to detail and his crowd scenes are very well conceived & produced. His early reels tend to be a bit preachy in touting the virtues of the railroad, but action scenes quickly follow which amply compensate for this. DeMille’s subject matter & obvious patriotism help him to avoid the lapses of taste & vulgarities in which he tended to stray in many of his other film forays.

Even with a fake Irish brogue, Barbara Stanwyck charms in her role as a railroad postmistress & engineer’s daughter. Feisty & volatile, always great fun to watch, it’s easy to see why she’s loved by both Joel McCrea (the hero) & Robert Preston (the antihero). Both gentlemen give good rousing performances in roles that might have strayed into the stereotypical, but never do.

Brian Donlevy, as the villain, gives another vivid portrait in what is rather a small role, but very much like the one he would play that same year in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN.

Akim Tamiroff & Lynne Overman are especially enjoyable as McCrea’s scruffy, rather repulsive security enforcers; with whip & guns, these are two hombres you wouldn’t want to tangle with. Robert Barrat as a murdering bully & Regis Toomey as a sweet-natured Irish worker, give impressive cameos. Anthony Quinn appears for a couple of scenes as a gambler who unwisely pulls a gun on McCrea, and lovely Evelyn Keyes has a scant few screen moments as a telegrapher’s wife.

Sharp-eyed movie mavens may (or may not) be able to spot among the uncredited players Monte Blue, Ward Bond, Iron Eyes Cody, Will Geer, Noble Johnson, Elmo Lincoln & Mala playing various Indians, gamblers or railwaymen.

It would be most intriguing to run UNION PACIFIC in a double bill with John Ford’s 1924 epic THE IRON HORSE, which tells the same historical story, but with a different artistic tack & fictional characters.

Excellent epic by DeMille, probably my favorite of his films
It doesn’t suffer from any of his usual flaws. The pacing is perfect, the acting is not at all stilted, and the technical aspects don’t dominate the story or the characters. The story centers around the building of the titular railroad. A banker hires a motley group of gamblers and whoremongers (led by Brian Donlevy) to slow down production and then invests in the Central Pacific. Joel McCrea plays a railroad cop, basically, who sees that Donlevy is trouble. He can’t outright kick him out, because his army buddy and best friend (Robert Preston) is Donlevy’s partner. To further complicate the relationship between McCrea and Preston, there is a girl caught between them (Barbara Stanwyck). It’s a great story supported by fine performances all around. While the film runs for 2 hours and 19 minutes, it never seemed boring at all. There are several exciting setpieces, most notably an Indian attack. There are also a couple of great suspense sequences. I loved the scene where McCrea corners Preston and Stanwyck after the payroll has been stolen. It goes on for a long time but the suspense never breaks. Generally I don’t think DeMille has skill enough to pull something like that off. My only real problem is that sometimes the good guys are as bad as the villains. McCrea has two sidekicks, played by Akim Tamiroff and Lynne Overman, who can’t help but be referred to as henchmen. I mean, even the characters’ names are sinister, Fiesta and Leach. Donlevy has a couple of henchmen as well (Anthony Quinn in an early role and Robert Barrat), and they aren’t any scarier.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 15 min (135 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Western
Director Cecil B. DeMille
Writer Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (14 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm