Union Station 1950 123movies

Watch: Union Station 1950 123movies, Full Movie Online – Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to ‘Tough Willy’ Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. The all-seeing, no-nonsense Calhoun is initially skeptical, but the men (who escape) prove to be involved in a kidnap case. Calhoun calls in equally tough police Inspector Donnelly, but the ruthless kidnapper’s precision planning stays one jump ahead of them. Most of the action centers around bustling Union Station..
Plot: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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Taut thriller maintains high degree of suspense…
UNION STATION is a briskly paced thriller laced with enough suspense to keep the viewer intrigued until the final shootout in a tunnel below the station where badman (LYLE BETTGER) must be tracked down by hard-boiled detective (WILLIAM HOLDEN) so that a blind girl (ALLENE ROBERTS) can be returned safely to her father. Bettger has arranged a ransom for the girl to the tune of $100,000 and is determined to keep a grip on the suitcase containing the ransom money.

NANCY OLSON is the woman on the train who first notices that one of the men has come aboard with a gun and she immediately becomes suspicious enough to report this to the authorities. Lead detective Holden takes charge and he and Olson gradually develop a relationship of trust that leads to the finale where she’s tending to his wounded shoulder, while LAPD man (BARRY FITZGERALD) looks on approvingly, sensing love in bloom.

It’s directed in almost documentary style with a “Naked City” sort of realism. Holden and the police handle their suspects with realistically rough tactics which further heightens the tense realism of the story. JAN STERLING has a small role as a gun moll (what else?), who lets the police know that Bettger intends to kill the girl once he gets the ransom.

LYLE BETTGER is superb as the snarling villain, easily stealing many of the scenes with his brutally menacing tough guy role. No wonder he played this sort of man in so many films afterwards.

Well worth watching, nice work by Holden and Olson, with faint criticism for Barry Fitzgerald for mumbling much of his heavily accented dialog with that Irish brogue. The only other criticism is that the director allows ALLENE ROBERTS to scream too much, which becomes tiresome and makes Bettger come up with the crack, after slapping her: “For this, he’s willing to put up $100,000.”

Prolonged, textbook kidnap-plot with interesting milieu…
Director Rudolph Maté’s “Union Station”, from Thomas Walsh’s novel, again pairs William Holden with Nancy Olson following their triumph with “Sunset Blvd.” While both stars are solid here, the step-down to genre shtick (particularly for Holden) is disheartening. After seeing what Holden was truly capable of, he’s reduced here to the old cops-and-kidnappers formula, with barely a personality beneath his badge. Olson plays a worrisome secretary who spots some desperate-looking men on her train; after reporting them to the authorities, it’s discovered–in an outrageous coincidence–the men have just kidnapped the blind daughter of Olson’s wealthy employer. Aside from some uncommon brutalities, and a sadistically funny game of good cop-bad cop between detective Holden, chief inspector Barry Fitzgerald and one of the crooks, this paste-up case is pretty cut and dry. The train station surroundings are fun, but the victim (a real screamer) is a sad sack, as are the dopey villains. Olson has little to do but wring her hands, but she certainly comes out better than Jan Sterling, playing sweetheart to the bad guys. Sterling, after being forced to roll about in the gutter, later gets one of those Hollywood hospital scenes which doesn’t even show her off to any great advantage. The picture is smoothly steady, but rather a no-brainer. ** from ****

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 21 min (81 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director Rudolph Maté
Writer Sydney Boehm, Thomas Walsh
Actors William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,207 m (8 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm