Cinematic background from Union Pacific 1939 - One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Union Pacific

1939

Drama, Western

Directors:
Cecil B. DeMille
Writers:
Ernest Haycox, Walter DeLeon, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, C. Gardner Sullivan, Stanley Rauh, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jeanie Macpherson, Jack Cunningham
Official poster of Union Pacific 1939 directed by Cecil B. DeMille