Product Details

• Actors: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
• Directors: Fritz Lang
• Producers: Harry Joe Brown
• Format: Import, NTSC, Color, Full Screen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Fox/Oregon
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CSWBAG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,066 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had an accident with a horse. In 1861, Vance regenerates and is hired to work for the Western Union with the team that is installing the poles and cable from Omaha to Salt Lake City. Vance and the engineer from Harvard Richard Blake flirt with the gorgeous Edward's sister Sue Creighton and she chooses Vance. However, his past haunts him when the outlaw Jack Slade steals the Western Union cattle disguised of Indians.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Randolph Scott's Breakthrough Western, July 23, 2009

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Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Union [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] (DVD)

Director Fritz Lang's attention to historic and human details play an integral role in "Western Union" - a fictitious account of the telegraph line's evolution in the 1860s. Generally acknowledged as the first epic-scale Western in color, the 1941 Fox production is a rather conventional Hollywood endeavor. Despite the excessive comic relief and overemphasis on romance, the German filmmaker incorporates some of his fatalistic vision into the proceedings - embodied by Randolph Scott's tragic characterization. Lang's individual shadings add moments of realism to what could have been an overblown Cecil B. DeMille-type spectacle. "Western Union" remains an important film in its breakthrough casting of Scott, whose dark qualities would be further explored in his collaborations with writer-director Budd Boetticher.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Different labeling, but same great movie, July 4, 2009

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B. Cathey "ParsifalCSA" (Wendell, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Union (DVD)

This issue of the Randolph Scott classic, WESTERN UNION, is packaged and sold out of Brazil. But it's the very same movie, playable on all American DVD machines, with just the notes and title rendered into Portuguese. Good quality, very nice print (from 20th C./Fox). This is a classic Western, directed by Fritz Lang. They don't make like this now.

4.0 out of 5 stars DVD Western Union, October 24, 2009

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George O. Chidester "Chet Chidester" (Danville, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Union (DVD)

This is a very good movie. But lately Amazon's Prices have gone up.
If I were you I would try and find this movie somewhere else that is cheaper.