Drama, Western
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?
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Apache Gold
It's Winter
Pather Panchali
The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
Powderkeg
The Great Train Robbery
Wild Wild West
Closely Watched Trains
Central Station
Jesse James
Kansas Pacific
Emperor of the North
The House by the Railway Tracks
Blazing Saddles
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Thundering Through
The Great Barrier
Three Quarters of the Sun
A Canterbury Tale
Night Passage
SIMILAR MOVIES
Apache Gold
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1963
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.It's Winter
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2006
Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a job. The attractive single mother can’t resist his attentions. Very subtly, a struggle ensues that reflects that of a whole generation of young doubting Iranians who may want to leave the country, but hardly know how to start.Pather Panchali
IMDB 7.8 | Aug , 1955
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. His wife, Sarbojaya, looks after their rebellious daughter, Durga, and young son, Apu. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life.The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
IMDB 4 | Feb , 1912
A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies atop the track. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle.Powderkeg
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1971
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.The Great Train Robbery
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1903
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.Wild Wild West
IMDB 5.3 | Jun , 1999
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.Closely Watched Trains
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 1966
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.Central Station
IMDB 8.1 | Apr , 1998
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.Jesse James
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1939
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.Kansas Pacific
IMDB 4.8 | Feb , 1953
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.Emperor of the North
IMDB 6.7 | May , 1973
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.The House by the Railway Tracks
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1988
A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local people of their new community.Blazing Saddles
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1974
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.7 Faces of Dr. Lao
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1964
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.Thundering Through
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1925
Ruth Burroughs the daughter of a beleaguered rancher whose valuable property is threatened by a greedy railroad companyThe Great Barrier
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1937
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.Three Quarters of the Sun
IMDB 8.5 | Jul , 1959
A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.A Canterbury Tale
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.Night Passage
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1957
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.