Kansas Pacific (film)
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| Directed by | Ray Nazarro |
| Produced by |
Walter Wanger Edward Morey Jr. |
| Written by | Daniel B. Ullman |
| Starring |
Sterling Hayden Eve Miller |
| Music by | Albert Sendrey |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann |
| Edited by |
William Austin Walter Hannemann |
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Production
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Walter Wanger Productions
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
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Running time
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73 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Kansas Pacific is a 1953 U.S. Cinecolor Western film released by Allied Artists Pictures and directed by Ray Nazarro. It stars Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller. The film offers a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s just prior to the American Civil War. In the film the building of the railroad in Kansas is opposed by sympathizers of the Confederacy.
General Winfield Scott sends a Corps of Engineers captain (Hayden) incognito to complete the railroad in order to supply western outposts when the anticipated war starts. Opposing the railway is Confederate William Quantrill (Reed Hadley), whose mission is to stop or delay the railway from being completed.
The rights to the film are currently in the public domain.
The movie was filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch and the Sierra Railroad in what is now Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown, California. Walter Mirisch of Allied Artists had Walter Wanger's name put on the picture as a producer, although he was in prison for shooting agent Jennings Lang, whom he believed to be having an affair with his wife, Joan Bennett. Thanks to Mirisch, Wanger received a producer's billing, salary and profit participation.
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