Kansas Pacific (1953)

★★★★★ · Good Pre-Civil War Western · seekingclassics · 2007-04-22

It has the feel of a high-budget movie, starting out with the musical score. In addition to that, it is well written and well acted. The characterizations are fairly strong. If they would have made it a little longer, it would have been more powerful, but they may have had a time limit.

★★★★ · a good historical fiction movie · specs · 2005-12-27

I downloade this film about two days ago and was impressed with the acting, story, and plotline. Eventhough it was one of those films grinded out by Allied Artists, they did a few good films one of being this one and the Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn film (the title escapes me at the moment). I recommend the these films (the cooper/hepburn one you need to get on IA). Enjoy.

★★★★ · A Reasonable Historical Film · Jason Landless · 2005-03-30

This film follows the experiences of a father and his daughter as they work on the Kansas Pacific railroad shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Sadly for the Union, the Confederates are clever enough to surmise that hostilities are soon to be inaugurated, and so, they aim to sabotage the construction of the track through a carefully co-ordinated programme of fist-fights, assasination attempts, dynamite exposions, and at the end, the use of heavy cannonade against the steam engine itself. All for nothing, as it turns out, because unknown to anyone, the Union sent down to the…

★★★ · A funny thing happened... · indy.go.blue66 · 2019-02-12

I own several of those 50 packs of movies, one of which includes "Kansas Pacific" in color. I thought maybe this was another version made prior, but apparently my copy is an early colorized version. They did a very good job, if that's the case. This is good, but the colorized version is much better.