Union Pacific [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea Akim Tamiroff Robert Preston Lynne Overman
	Video by:	Universal Studios
	Sales Rank:	15900

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Actor(s):
Barbara Stanwyck
Joel McCrea
Akim Tamiroff
Robert Preston
Lynne Overman

Creators:
C. Gardner Sullivan (Writer)
Ernest Haycox (Writer)
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (Writer)
Jack Cunningham (Writer)
Jeanie Macpherson (Writer)
Jesse Lasky Jr. (Writer)
Stanley Rauh (Writer)

Director(s):
Cecil B. DeMille

Recording label: Universal Studios
EAN: 9786303382982
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6303382983
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1995-03-28
Universal product code (UPC): 096898121439
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

Amazon.com
"The legend of Union Pacific is the drama of a nation, young, tough, prodigal and invincible, conquering with an iron highroad the endless reaches of the West." This stemwinder of a foreword strikes the pseudo-biblical/American Empire keynote for Cecil B. DeMille's "history" of building the transcontinent railroad. Only the bombast--and Arthur Rosson's second-unit direction--rises to the film's epic mission. The mustache-twirling villainy is right out of 19th-century melodrama, and the romantic triangle of Joel McCrea's railroad troubleshooter, Barbara Stanwyck's aggressively "Oirish" postmistress-on-wheels, and their black-sheep chum played by newcomer Robert Preston is a feeble distraction. Worse, the stars do their stuff on studio sets, in sterile isolation from the locomotives, Indians, and buffalo hovering slightly out of scale on process screens behind them. There's not one but two train wrecks (always a DeMille favorite); in every other department, John Ford had C.B. beat 15 years earlier with The Iron Horse. --Richard T. Jameson

Running time: 135 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)