The Great Barrier

1937
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1h 23min

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Richard Arlen

Hickey

Barry MacKay

Steve
(as Barry Mackay)

Antoinette Cellier

Mary Moody

Roy Emerton

Moody

Lilli Palmer

J. Farrell MacDonald

Major Rogers
(as J.Farrell Macdonald)

Reginald Barlow

James Hill - Member of C.P.R. Board

Arthur Loft

William Van Horne - Member of C.P.R. Board

Ben Welden

Joe
(as Ben Weldon)

Jock MacKay

Bates
(as Jock Mackay)

Henry Victor

Bulldog Kelly

Ernest Sefton

Magistrate

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Sir John Macdonald - Prime Minister of Canada

Gilbert Emery

George Stephen - Member of C.P.R. Board

Howard Hickman

Donald Smith - Member of C.P.R. Board
(as Howard C. Hickman)

William Ruhl

Thomas Shaughnessy - Member of C.P.R. Board

William Millman

R.B. Angus - Member of C.P.R. Board
(as Lestrange Millman)

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[Foreword] The Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, planned to span Canada from East to West, proved an engineering feat of the first magnitude. After years of anxiety and toil it progressed 2,000 miles on its way, and came within sight of the barrier - the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains.

A friend burned this onto a DVD for me, and I watched and enjoyed it earlier today.

There are lots of historical inaccuracies in the film, but I liked it, anyway. The guy playing Moody, Roy Emerton, was effective.

To cite just one small inaccuracy (not a spoiler) a reference is made to the first train going through the Rockies, its destination given as Vancouver. The first train was actually bound for Port Moody, at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet, and arrived there July 4, 1886. The first train into Vancouver, a few miles farther west, didn't get there until May of 1887.