Les pionniers de la Western Union

Titre original : Western Union

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Randolph Scott, Robert Young, and Virginia Gilmore in Les pionniers de la Western Union (1941)

Edward Creighton dirige la construction de la Western Union qui reliera l'Est à l'Ouest et embauche un hors-la-loi repenti et un jeune géomètre que tout oppose.Edward Creighton dirige la construction de la Western Union qui reliera l'Est à l'Ouest et embauche un hors-la-loi repenti et un jeune géomètre que tout oppose.Edward Creighton dirige la construction de la Western Union qui reliera l'Est à l'Ouest et embauche un hors-la-loi repenti et un jeune géomètre que tout oppose.

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Anecdotes
The first transcontinental telegraph (completed 10/24/1861 ) was a line that connected the existing network in the eastern US to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha (NE) and Carson City (NV)., via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the US. It was primarily the work of the newly-founded Western Union Telegraph Company (1851; merged with another in 1856).

Gaffes
During the speeches before they start stringing the telegraph wires, all the flags are 48-star flags. There were only 35 states in the Union in 1861.

Citations
Doc Murdoch: Can you cook lamb?
Cookie: There are nine different ways to cook mutton. And I know them all!
Homer Kettle: Never mind that! Do you cook it with the hair on?
Cookie: I should say not!
Crowd: Hurray!
Homer Kettle: Then you're hired!

Connexions
Edited into Buffalo Bill (1944)

Bandes originales
Gwine to Rune All Night
("De Camptown Races") (1850) (uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
Played as background music for the first scene in Omaha, Nebraska

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6/10

Entertaining western

Fritz Lang's "Western Union" is a entertaining movie with good heroes in Randolph Scott,the strong and silent man trying to escape his outlaw past,Robert Young as the easterner trying to conform to the code of the wild west,and Dean Jagger as the determined boss of the Western Union gang.I think the acting honors go to Dean Jagger who is very good in his part. Randolph Scott found his prototype of western hero in this movie and would play variations of that type in westerns to come for the next two decades.The movie looks very good in early Technicolor. Barton MacLane makes a good villain.I enjoyed this western much,although I consider it pretty standard stuff.