Kansas Pacific (1953)
1953 · Feature film · 73 min · dir. Ray Nazarro
Built by bullets, dynamite, and blood-stained spikes!
- Western
Synopsis
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Ray Nazarro
- Writer
- Daniel B. Ullman
- Composer
- Albert Sendrey
- Cinematography
- Harry Neumann
- Studio
- Walter Wanger Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
- Released
- 1953-02-22
- Running time
- 73 minutes
Cast & crew
Ray Nazarro Director
Barton MacLane
Eve Miller
Sterling Hayden
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Romance, ey? Not really. · Deichbrand_1 · 2011-08-28
The dialogues between Barbara and John are exceedingly stiff and staged. Actually, the characters do not reveal much of themselves as the discussions are rather limited in this content. They do it because they have to do it ... and there is not much outside of this narrow perspective. Well ... aside from this, the story has a good amount of holes and loops. The setting is good and also the camera is not too bad. Nice to see a non-b/w western at the IA. KP has its charm though and is a solid kind of western...
