Union Station (film)
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| Directed by | Rudolph Maté |
| Produced by | Jules Schermer |
| Screenplay by | Sydney Boehm |
| Story by | Thomas Walsh |
| Starring |
William Holden Nancy Olson Barry Fitzgerald |
| Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
| Cinematography | Daniel L. Fapp |
| Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
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Paramount Pictures
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
| Country | United states |
| Language | English |
Union Station is a 1950 crime drama film noir directed by Rudolph Maté starring William Holden, Nancy Olson and Barry Fitzgerald, among others.
In this police thriller that partly takes place in Chicago Union Station (though filmed instead at Los Angeles Union Station), a railroad policeman, William Calhoun, is approached at work by an apprehensive passenger named Joyce Willecombe (Nancy Olson) who believes that two travelers aboard her train may have been up to no good.
Joyce is the secretary to a rich man named Henry Murchison (Herbert Hayes), whose blind daughter, Lorna, has been kidnapped and held for ransom. The railway station where Calhoun works has been chosen as the location to pay off the ransom. Calhoun and fellow cop Inspector Donnelly race against time to find the kidnappers and bring them to justice.
The film was based on Nightmare in Manhattan, an Edgar-winning novel by Thomas Walsh. Sydney Boehm's script for the film version was nominated for an Edgar in the screenplay category. Aside from changing the setting from New York City's Grand Central Station to Chicago's Union Station (though the Los Angeles Union Station was the actual filming location), and changing the kidnap victim from a little boy to a blind, teen-aged girl, the script was quite faithful to its source material.
William Holden and Nancy Olson also appeared in Sunset Boulevard the same year.
Filming locations include: Union Station, Downtown, Los Angeles, California. Also, it looks like it was filmed on Chicago's South Side El from 1892 to Indiana station, where the train is uncoupled to go on the Stockyards Branch, which ran until 1957. Normally, the branch ran as a shuttle. It terminated at Exchange station, which was the terminal after 1956.
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