Screening

movie poster

Western Union

6.0

Released February 21, 1941Runtime 1h 35min

A 20th Century-Fox Encore Hit !

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

Rent

Buy

Cast

Robert YoungRichard Blake

Randolph ScottVance Shaw

Dean JaggerEdward Creighton

Virginia GilmoreSue Creighton

John CarradineDoc Murdoch

Chill WillsHomer Kettle

Slim SummervilleHerman, called "Cookie"

Barton MacLaneJack Slade

Russell HicksProvisional Governor

Victor KilianCharlie

Minor WatsonPat Grogan

George ChandlerHerb

Chief John Big TreeChief Spotted Horse

Chief ThundercloudIndian Leader

Dick RichPorky

Addison RichardsCaptain Harlow

Irving BaconBarber

C.E. AndersonOld Timer

Arthur AylesworthWoody

Bill BeaumanMinor Role

Hank BellTelegraph Worker

Esther BrodeletDancer

Paul E. BurnsStagecoach Depot Master

Clarence ChorreIndian

Sonny ChorreIndian

Bob ClarkTelegraph Worker

Cliff ClarkSheriff

Russ ClarkBusinessman

Tommy CoatsHenchman

Iron Eyes CodyIndian Who Drinks Chemical Solution

J.W. CodyIndian

Bahe DenetdeelIndian

Earl DobbinsTelegraph Worker

Larry DodsPosse Rider

Ralph DunnWork Seeker

Frank EllisCamp Defender

John EpperIndian

James FlavinDeputy Sheriff

Francis FordEastbound Stagecoach Driver

Tom B. FormanPosse Rider

Jack Henry FritzMinor Role

Boone HazlettIndian

Reed HowesSlade Henchman #2

Sid JordanPosse Rider

Cecil KelloggHenchman

Tom LondonSlade Henchman #3

Harold A. MalendezMinor Role

Kermit MaynardPosse Rider

Frank McGrathPosse Rider

Charles MiddletonStagecoach Rider

Lucille MillerDancer

Frank MillsWork Seeker

Joe MolinaIndian

Merlyn NelsonPosse Rider

Herman NowlinPosse Rider

Steve O'BrienOffice Boy

George PluesStagecoach Driver

Clint SharpHenchman

Jay SilverheelsIndian

Joe P. SmithIndian

James P. SpencerIndian

Harry StrangHenchman

Tony UrchelIndian

Eddy WallerStagecoach Driver #1

Ed WarrenHenchman

Blackie WhitefordPosse Rider

Crew

Fritz LangDirector

Otto BrowerSecond Unit Director

Saul WurtzelAssistant Director

Lynn ShoresSecond Unit Director

Henry WeinbergerSecond Assistant Director

Hal HermanAssistant Director

Zane GreyNovel

Robert CarsonScreenplay

Jack AndrewsDialogue

George BruceWriter

Horace McCoyDialogue

Harry Joe BrownAssociate Producer

Darryl F. ZanuckExecutive Producer

Fred FoxProduction Manager

Jerry BryanAssistant Unit Manager

Robert E. GouxUnit Manager

Ben SilveyUnit Manager

William KoenigProduction Manager

David ButtolphMusic Director

Allen M. DaveyDirector of Photography

Richard DayArt Direction

Robert BischoffEditor

Travis BantonCostume Design

Edward CronjagerDirector of Photography

Thomas LittleSet Decoration

Albert HogsettArt Direction

Yakima CanuttStunts

Roger Heman Sr.Sound

Bernard FreericksSound

Robert CowanMakeup Artist

Max LauerGreensman

Carl DanielsCableman

John EpperStunts

Sid JordanStunts

Lemuel TribeAssistant Property Master

Joe P. SmithStunts

David ButtolphOriginal Music Composer

Don B. GreenwoodProps

Roy PierceCarpenter

Gene Fowler Jr.Editor

W.R. SnyderAssistant Sound Engineer

Ben SouthlandSpecial Effects

William F. MittlestedtSpecial Effects

Charles KingPainter

M. GoldmanAssistant Property Master

William F. MittlestedtMechanical Designer

Buddy KingHairstylist

Clarence SchifferCableman

Frank McGrathStunts

Ray LopezMakeup Artist

Fred HallGaffer

William SittelAssistant Property Master

Recommendations

6.2The Decline

6.4Hour of the Gun

6.7LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League - Got...

6.6Breakheart Pass

6.0The Detective

6.5Rancho Notorious

6.9Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

5.8Cyclone on Horseback

7.7Brazil

7.3Gangs of New York

6.4Olympus Has Fallen

7.1The Lion King

8.2The Handmaiden

7.6The Super Mario Bros. Movie

8.3The Wild Robot

7.6Deadpool & Wolverine

6.7Blink Twice

8.2The Shining

6.0Handling the Undead

7.0Close Your Eyes

Similar Movies

5.9The Jayhawkers!

7.2Open Range

7.6Stagecoach

5.2Legion of the Lawless

8.5The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

6.3Carry On Cowboy

7.0The Great Train Robbery

6.0From Noon Till Three

4.8Renegade

2.0Django the Condemned

4.9From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter

6.7Young Guns

7.6The Big Country

6.0American Outlaws

7.0How the West Was Won

7.3High Plains Drifter

7.23:10 to Yuma

5.5My Outlaw Brother

5.5Rough Riders' Round-up

5.3Sagebrush Trail

Reviews

_**Adventures while setting up the telegraph line on the Great Plains**_ As the Civil War breaks out in 1861, a former outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins the team wiring what is now Nebraska and Wyoming for telegraph service. Dean Jagger plays the executive of the project while Robert Young is on han...

I wonder if Fritz Lang had these three imposed on him by the studio system or whether he chose them? Anyway, sadly the folks we have leading this interesting, pioneering, adventure don't really manage to raise the film from a rather procedural mediocrity - despite this being quite a fascinating sto...