Kansas Pacific

1953
PG
1h 13m

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Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller in Kansas Pacific (1953)

With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.

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Sterling Hayden

Capt. John Nelson

Eve Miller

Barbara Bruce

Barton MacLane

Cal Bruce

Harry Shannon

Smokestack

Tom Fadden

Gus Gustavson

Reed Hadley

Bill Quantrill

Douglas Fowley

Max Janus

Robert Keys

Lt. Stanton
(as Bob Keys)

Irving Bacon

Casey

Myron Healey

Morey

James Griffith

Joe Farley

Clayton Moore

Stone - Henchman

Jonathan Hale

Sherman Johnson

Lane Bradford

Max - Henchman
(uncredited)

Bill Coontz

Henchman
(uncredited)

Joe Garcio

Henchman
(uncredited)

Tommy Garland

Heavy
(uncredited)

Roy Gordon

Gen. Winfield Scott
(uncredited)

Director
- Ray Nazarro
Writer
- Daniel B. Ullman
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Trivia
Walter Mirisch of Allied Artists had Walter Wanger's name put on the picture as a producer, although he was in prison for shooting agent Jennings Lang, whom he believed to be having an affair with his wife, Joan Bennett. Wanger pled insanity and was sentenced to four months imprisonment, though he served only 98 days. Thanks to Mirisch, Wanger received a producer's billing, salary and profit participation.

Goofs
The film is set in late 1860/early 1861 shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War. The crew building the Kansas Pacific railroad is using dynamite for blasting. Dynamite was invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in 1866.

Quotes
Barbara Bruce: [resignedly] You're staying.
Cal Bruce: I guess old Smokestack's right this time. We've handled these diploma boys before, you know. He'll learn soon enough to stay out of our way.
Barbara Bruce: Well... alright. But you've got to promise me one thing. If this man turns out to be impossible, we're leaving. I'm not go to let anyone push you around.
Cal Bruce: Have you ever seen anyone push me around... except you and your mother?

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Featured in The Sierra Number 3 Locomotive: A Star Is Reborn (2012)

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8/10

The "Lone Ranger" as a bad guy!

I can't recall Clayton Moore as anyone but the "brave masked man," but here he is as a bad guy with no mask. I'd say that counts as irony.

Also: who ever heard of a main character named "Mr. Bruce" in the Westerns. I think I know the source of the name, as my dad wrote the script. The same goes for the daughter, Barbara. If they had a daughter, my folks planned to name her Barbara. Three years later, they did and my sister's name is Barbara.

The memorable quotes struck a chord with me, especially when Mr. Bruce says that no one pushes him around -- except his daughter and his wife. Such dry humor was a hallmark of my father and I miss it and, of course, him.