Union Pacific - BLU-RAY

Barbara Stanwyk and Joel McCrea star in director Cecil B. DeMille's explosive western, Union Pacific, about the struggle to build America's first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific's construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston). Dick is a former pal of Jeff's, bu

Between 1951 and 1952, director Byron Haskin (The War of the Worlds) and star Edmond O'Brien (Silver City) collaborated for three westerns. Edmond O'Brien plays Jim Vesser, a former U.S. Cavalry Officer, now in charge of getting the Denver and Rio Grande tracks across the Rockies first to secure a right-of-way. Standing in his way is the less scrupulous and more ruthless McCabe (Sterling Hayden, the Killing) who's trying to lay his Canyon City and San Juan tracks first. The conflict between the two men turns into guerilla warfare between the two outfits. The excellent cast includes Dean Jagger as General William J. Palmer, Vesser's former commanding officer and Lyle Bettger as Johnny Buff, McCabe's slimy chief gunman.

Back home in Texas and embittered by his Civil War experience, Dan Hammond (Robert Ryan) is looking for faster and easier cash than maintaining the homestead. Through force and graft, he manages to build a land empire, but his ambition brings him into conflict with Austin's new marshal... who just happens to be his brother (Rock Hudson). Saddle saga co-stars Julia Adams, Raymond Burr, James Arness; Budd Boetticher directs. 81 min. Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailer.