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Western Union

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Two outlaw brothers lock horns when one gives up his criminal ways and goes to work for Western Union, laying lines in Omaha and Salt Lake City.
  • Starring: Robert Young, Randolph Scott
  • Directed by: Fritz Lang
  • Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
  • Release year: 1941
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Synopsis: Two outlaw brothers lock horns when one gives up his criminal ways and goes to work for Western Union, laying lines in Omaha and Salt Lake City.
Starring: Robert Young, Randolph Scott
Supporting actors: Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Genre: History, Western
Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
Release year: 1941
Studio: 20th Century Fox
ASIN: B000SW166W (Rental) and B000SW1676 (Purchase)
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Theatrical Release Information
  • US Theatrical Release Date: Feburary 21, 1941
  • Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
  • Filming Locations: 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA | House Rock Canyon, Arizona, USA | Kanab, Utah, USA | Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah, USA
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3 of 3 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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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 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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars DVD Western Union, October 24, 2009
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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.
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