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The film offers a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the early 1860s just prior to the American Civil War. In the film the building of the railroad in Kansas is opposed by sympathizers of the South before it forms the Confederacy.
Kansas Pacific: Directed by Ray Nazarro. With Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon. With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
- (812)
- Western
- Ray Nazarro
- 1953-02-22
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With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction. Director: Ray NazarroWriter: Daniel B. Ullman Production company...
- 74 min
- 16.7K
- Absolute Westerns
With the American Civil War looming, construction of the Pacific railroad is being held up in Kansas, sabotaged by Confederate sympathizers. The government dispatches an Army engineer, John...
- (6)
- Ray Nazarro
- Western
- Sterling Hayden
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.
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In 1860, Captain John Nelson, a U. S. Army officer working undercover as a civilian, is assigned to aid in the construction of the vital east-to-west Kansas-Pacific Railroad, on which the work is being continually delayed by sabotage from an unknown group of sympathizer with the Southern cause.
