Overland Pacific

1954
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1h 13m

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Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens, and Jock Mahoney in Overland Pacific (1954)

Railroad investigator tries to find the reason behind constant Indian attacks on the railroad.Railroad investigator tries to find the reason behind constant Indian attacks on the railroad.Railroad investigator tries to find the reason behind constant Indian attacks on the railroad.

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5.5/10

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Jock Mahoney

Ross Granger
(as Jack Mahoney)

Peggie Castle

Ann Dennison

Adele Jergens

Jessie Loraine

William Bishop

Del Stewart

Chubby Johnson

Sheriff Blaney

Walter Sande

Mr. Dennison

Pat Hogan

Dark Thunder

Chris Alcaide

Jason

Fred Graham

Jenks - Stage Driver

Arthur Berkeley

Railroad Worker
(uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Railroad Worker
(uncredited)

X Brands

Railroad Worker
(uncredited)

Phil Chambers

Weeks
(uncredited)

Martin Cichy

Railroad Worker
(uncredited)

G. Pat Collins

Connors
(uncredited)

George Eldredge

Broden
(uncredited)

Fred Fisher

Indian
(uncredited)

Robert Foulk

Railroad Worker
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Italian censorship visa # 16777 delivered on 22 July 1954.

Goofs
At approx. 19:38, the telegraph line was referred to as a telephone line. This was supposed to have taken place shortly after the end of the civil war, which was 1865. The telephone was not invented until 1875 and the first telephone was not installed until 1878. The golden spike connecting east to west was driven in May of 1869 in Promontory, Utah.

Quotes
Weeks: Well, that's my hotel over there. It's usually full up, but I can take care of you now that Mr. Holly is changing his room.
Ross Grainger: Wrong. Holly isn't changing his room. He checked out.
Weeks: No, he'll be occupying the downstairs rear. You see, I'm also the Oaktown's undertaker. And having my establishment on the premises, well, it saves so many steps.

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5/10

For Tickers Only!

For some reason I hadn't ticked this one against my reference bible (Phil Hardy's "Western Movies"); it was on UK TV's marvellous Talking Pictures free channel.

What a nasty story full of murders, treacherous former friend, saloon gal with heart of gold (murdered), cowardly sheriff (murdered), feisty heroine (Peggy Castle) sporting tight slacks (father is murdered); hero is supposedly a telegrapher but really a "railroad agent", former mate is chief crook conniving with the usual sinister townies to supply repeating rifles to the Comanches to cause mayhem so railroad is diverted to town so land values can increase (familiar?); Hardy mentions the awful colour (Color Corp. Of America) which is a bleached horror; (the cowardly, crooked sheriff is Chubby Johnson-playing against his usual comedy type-warmly remembered as the riverboat captain in "Bend of the River"); ticked it off as am an obsessive Western watcher-but will never see it again!