Main Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Tom Fadden
Release Year: 1953
Country: US
Run Time: 73 minutes
Plot
Walter Wanger's first production for Allied Artists, Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western. Set just before the Civil War, the film concerts Kansas Pacific railroad's westward expansion, a project stymied by the sabotage activities of Southern sympathizers. Military officer John Nelson (Sterling Hayden) is assigned to make sure the railroad goes through. The film offers excellent performances from such usually stereotyped players as Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Douglas Fowley and James Griffith. Kansas Pacific's leading lady is Eve Miller, best known as Kirk Douglas' vis-a-vis in The Big Trees. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Dave Milton - Art Director, Edward Morey, Jr. - Associate Producer, Ray Nazarro - Director, William Austin - Editor, Walter A. Hannemann - Editor, Albert Sendrey - Composer (Music Score), Marlin Skiles - Musical Direction/Supervision, Harry Neumann - Cinematographer, Walter Wanger - Producer, Dan Ullman - Screenwriter
General Winfield Scott sends a Corps of Engineers Captain (Hayden) incognito to complete the railroad in order to supply Western outposts when war is declared. Opposing the railway is Confederate William Quantrill (Reed Hadley) whose mission is to stop or delay the railway from being completed.
The rights to the film are currently in the public domain.
