Kansas Pacific (film)

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Kansas Pacific
Film poster
Directed by	Ray Nazarro
Produced by	Walter Wanger Edward Morey Jr.
Written by	Daniel B. Ullman
Starring	Sterling Hayden Eve Miller
Music by	Albert Sendrey
Cinematography	Harry Neumann
Editing by	William Austin Walter Hannemann
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release dates	February 22, 1953
Running time	73 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Kansas Pacific is a 1953 U.S. Cinecolor western film released by Allied Artists Pictures and directed by Ray Nazarro. It stars Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller. The movie offers a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s just prior to the American Civil War. In the movie the building of the railroad in Kansas is opposed by sympathizers of the Confederacy.

General Winfield Scott sends a Corps of Engineers captain (Hayden) incognito to complete the railroad in order to supply western outposts when the anticipated war starts. Opposing the railway is Confederate William Quantrill (Reed Hadley), whose mission is to stop or delay the railway from being completed.

The rights to the film are currently in the public domain.

Production

The movie was filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch and the Sierra Railroad in what is now Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown, California. 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. Thanks to Mirisch, Wanger received a producer's billing, salary and profit participation.^[1]

Notes

↑ p.49 Mirisch, Walter I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History 2008 University of Wisconsin Press

External links

Kansas Pacific at the Internet Movie Database
Kansas Pacific on Youtube
Kansas Pacific is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more] (Black-and-white)
Kansas Pacific is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more] (Color)
Kansas Pacific at allmovie
Kansas Pacific at Rotten Tomatoes

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