Back Western Union (pel·lícula) Catalan Western Union Welsh Überfall der Ogalalla German Espíritu de conquista Spanish Western Union (filma) Basque وسترن یونیون (فیلم) Persian He olivat urheita miehiä Finnish Les Pionniers de la Western Union French Western Union (filme) Galician Western Union (film) ID
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| Directed by | Fritz Lang |
| Screenplay by | Robert Carson |
| Based on | Western Union by Zane Grey |
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| Edited by | Robert Bischoff |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Western Union is a 1941 American western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Robert Young, Randolph Scott, and Dean Jagger.[1] Filmed in Technicolor on location in Arizona and Utah. In Western Union, Scott plays a reformed outlaw who tries to make good by joining the team building a telegraph line across the Great Plains in 1861. Conflicts arise between the man and his former gang, as well as between the team stringing the wires and the Native Americans through whose land the new lines must run. In this regard, the film is not historically accurate; Edward Creighton was known for his honest and humane treatment of the tribes along the right of way and this was rewarded on the part of the Indians by their trust and cooperation with Creighton and his workers. The installation of telegraph wires was met with protest from no one.[2]
The film is based on the 1939 novel Western Union by Zane Grey, although there are significant differences between the two plots.[3]
- ^ "Western Union". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
- ^ Everson, William K. (1992). The Hollywood Western. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-1256-3.
- ^ Armour, Robert A. (1978). Fritz Lang. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0805792591.