La via dei giganti

Titolo originale: Union Pacific
Regia: Cecil B. DeMille |
Anno: 1939
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Western
Tag: railroad |
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck | Joel McCrea | Akim Tamiroff | Robert Preston | Lynne Overman | Brian Donlevy | Robert Barrat | Anthony Quinn | Stanley Ridges | Henry Kolker | Francis McDonald | Willard Robertson | Harold Goodwin | Evelyn Keyes | Richard Lane | William Haade | Regis Toomey | J.M. Kerrigan | Fuzzy Knight | Harry Woods | Lon Chaney Jr. | Joseph Crehan | Julia Faye | Sheila Darcy | Ernie Adams | Stanley Andrews | Richard Alexander | George Anderson | Sam Ash | Earl Askam | Harry A. Bailey | May Beatty | Don Beddoe | Genevieve Bell | Monte Blue | Ward Bond | Dick Botiller | Ed Brady | Tom Burke | George Burton | A.S. Byron | E.H. Calvert | Steve Carruthers | Nora Cecil | Wheaton Chambers | Lane Chandler | Jack Chapin | Sonny Chorre | Davison Clark | Jack Rube Clifford | David Clyde | Iron Eyes Cody | Allen Connor | Hal Craig | Sidney D'Albrook | Max Davidson | Alfonso De Cruz | Victor De Linsky | Richard Denning | Mike Driscoll | Tex Driscoll | Peter Du Rey | Jimmie Dundee | Paul Everton | Jim Farley | Martin Faust | Maude Fealy | John Fee | Eddie Fetherston | James Flavin | Byron Foulger | J. C. Fowler | George B. French | Will Geer | Kenneth Gibson | Joe Gilbert | William Gillis | Wesley Giraud | Gus Glassmire | Dick Gordon | Douglas Gordon | Wylie Grant | George Guhl | Chuck Hamilton | John Harmon | Pat Hartigan | Beth Hartman | Edward Hearn | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | Russell Hicks | Leon Holmes | Robert Homans | Mitchell Ingraham | T.C. Jack | Selmer Jackson | Si Jenks | Noble Johnson | Jack W. Johnston | Edward Keane | Jane Keckley | Jim Kelso | Jack Kennedy | Bob Kortman | Frank Lackteen | Ethan Laidlaw | Florence Lake | Bobby LaSalle | Alexander Leftwich | Edward LeSaint | Elmo Lincoln | Walter Long | Viola Louie | Evelyn Luckey | Evelyn Luckey | Hugh MacDonald | Wilbur Mack | Mary MacLaren | George Magrill | Tom Mahoney | Mala | John Marston | Ida May | Charles McAvoy | Sam McDaniel | Charles McMurphy | James McNamara | John Merton | Ray Miller | Frank Mills | Pat Moriarity | Adrian Morris | Horace Murphy | Jack Murphy | Louis Natheaux | David Newell | Nestor Paiva | Emory Parnell | Doreen Pastor | William Pawley | Edward Peil Sr. | Jack Pennick | Albert Petit | James Pierce | Russ Powell | John Power | Hal Price | Frances Rather | George Regas | John J. Richardson | Cyril Ring | Margaret Roach | Richard Robles | Buddy Roosevelt | Dick Rush | Joe Sawyer | Francis Sayles | Syd Saylor | Ed Schaefer | Ynez Seabury | Frank Shannon | Michael Slade | Lew Short | James P. Spencer | Edwin Stanley | Robert R. Stephenson | Bert Stevens | Charles Stevens | Mark Strong | John M. Sullivan | Albert Taylor | Nick Thompson | Chief Thundercloud | David Thursby | Archie Twitchell | Tony Urchel | Guy Usher | Morgan Wallace | Calla Waltz | Ruth Warren | Stanhope Wheatcroft | Blackie Whiteford | Greg Whitespear | William Worthington | Frank Yaconelli | Duke York |

Durante i difficili e sanguinosi lavori di costruzione della ferrovia tra l'Atlantico e il Pacifico si svolge la storia d'amore tra la figlia di un macchinista e un sorvegliante. La ragazza sposa un bandito per salvare l'amato, e quando il marito muore ucciso dai suoi uomini, i due si riuniscono.

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The company had rented many local pinto horses for the filming of the Indian attack on the train. Du [...] D
In order to operate the number of trains required by the production, Paramount had to get a regulati [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...] D
According to a news item in "The Hollywood Reporter", Cecil B. DeMille directed much of the film fro [...] D
Cecil B. DeMille wanted to make a film about the construction of a railroad, but had difficulty deci [...] D
The Union Pacific railroad in this picture is still in business as of 2021 and is the second largest [...] D
This was one of the films chosen from Hollywood to represent the US in what would have been the firs [...] D
According to Lucius Beebe's book "Union Pacific" the gold spike was not "driven" in. Since a spike m [...] D
Lon Chaney Jr. and Joel McCrea attended the same high school. D
For the Indian attack on the train, Paramount hired 100 Navajo Indian extras. D
Director Cecil B. DeMille had six miles of track built and acquired enough railroad cars and locomot [...] D
The gold spike used at the ceremony to mark the end of the construction was the same spike actually [...] D
Robert Preston appears in very similar roles in 2 films, both with very similar plots: Union Pacific [...] D
Final film of Viola Louie. D
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49 hat were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 [...] D
Fourth of six collaborations between Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. D
One of the railroad men ticks off a list of things that had been deemed "impossible," one of them be [...] D
A replica of Cheyenne, Wyoming as it appeared at the time was built at Iron Springs, Utah for this f [...] D
Dick Allen (Robert Preston) asks, "Where does he keep his 'Rule G'?", meaning a bottle of whiskey. T [...] D
Filmed simultaneously at one point by three units. The second unit director was Arthur Rosson and th [...] D
Final film of Ida May. D
Cecil B. DeMille claimed he discovered Robert Preston while he was a parking valet at the Santa Anit [...] D
Robert Preston, who played important roles in several Cecil B. DeMille productions, not only dislike [...] D
Joel McCrea's character is based on a real-life civil engineer named Charles H. Sharman (1841-1938) [...] D
The film's opening titles, which are shown moving down a rolling railroad track, later inspired titl [...] D
The world premiere in Omaha, NE, was a three-day celebration that drew 250,000 people, doubling the [...] D
Nearly all the antique railroad equipment used in the film was purchased by Paramount from the Virgi [...] D

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