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Espíritu de conquista

Título original: Western Union
  • 1941
  • Approved
  • 1h 35min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
6,7/10
3,5 mil
TU PUNTUACIÓN
Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Virginia Gilmore, and Dean Jagger in Espíritu de conquista (1941)
Classical WesternHistoryWestern

Cuando Edward Creighton dirige la construcción de la Western Union para unir el Este con el Oeste, contrata a un forajido reformado del Oeste y a un topógrafo novato del Este.Cuando Edward Creighton dirige la construcción de la Western Union para unir el Este con el Oeste, contrata a un forajido reformado del Oeste y a un topógrafo novato del Este.Cuando Edward Creighton dirige la construcción de la Western Union para unir el Este con el Oeste, contrata a un forajido reformado del Oeste y a un topógrafo novato del Este.

  • Dirección
    • Fritz Lang
  • Guión
    • Zane Grey
    • Robert Carson
    • Jack Andrews
  • Reparto principal
    • Robert Young
    • Randolph Scott
    • Dean Jagger
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    6,7/10
    3,5 mil
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Fritz Lang
    • Guión
      • Zane Grey
      • Robert Carson
      • Jack Andrews
    • Reparto principal
      • Robert Young
      • Randolph Scott
      • Dean Jagger
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    • 22Reseñas de críticos
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    Robert Young
    Robert Young
    • Richard Blake
    Randolph Scott
    Randolph Scott
    • Vance Shaw
    Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger
    • Edward Creighton
    Virginia Gilmore
    Virginia Gilmore
    • Sue Creighton
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Doc Murdoch
    Slim Summerville
    Slim Summerville
    • Herman
    Chill Wills
    Chill Wills
    • Homer Kettle
    Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane
    • Jack Slade
    Russell Hicks
    Russell Hicks
    • Governor
    Victor Kilian
    Victor Kilian
    • Charlie
    Minor Watson
    Minor Watson
    • Pat Grogan
    George Chandler
    George Chandler
    • Herb
    Chief John Big Tree
    Chief John Big Tree
    • Chief Spotted Horse
    • (as Chief Big Tree)
    Chief Thundercloud
    Chief Thundercloud
    • Indian Leader
    Dick Rich
    Dick Rich
    • Porky
    Addison Richards
    Addison Richards
    • Capt. Harlow
    Irving Bacon
    Irving Bacon
    • Barber
    C.E. Anderson
    C.E. Anderson
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    • Dirección
      • Fritz Lang
    • Guión
      • Zane Grey
      • Robert Carson
      • Jack Andrews
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    8HotToastyRag

    Best love triangle ever

    This movie is so cute! Marketed as a western that chronicles the advent of the Western Union telegraph office and telephone lines, it doesn't exactly scream cute, but it is. Randolph Scott provides enough eye candy to turn any movie cute, but it's not just he who turns the film into an educational western into a feisty, flirty comedy-it's Robert Young, too.

    Prior to this movie, I'd been known to not particularly like Robert Young, but this was one of the first to make me really change my mind about him. He's so adorable in this movie! Virginia Gilmore is the love interest, and while a young Dean Jagger is crossed off the list due to his brotherly relationship, she has to choose between Scottie and Robert. When Scottie comes in the picture, he's impossible to resist. He's handsome, he knows how to ride a horse-thanks to his WWI service days-and he's got a shady past. In short, he's a cow-bad-boy with an authentic Southern accent.

    Then, Robert shows up. He's a total dandy, but absolutely adorable. He's smart, charming, and puts the fun in sarcasm. In his first scene, he meets Virginia and she taps out a message in Morse code in the telegraph office to her coworkers making fun of the well-dressed gentleman. Robert merely smirks and, completely devoid of smugness, corrects her spelling. "I don't know what you're talking about," she sniffs indignantly. "Yeah, but I know what you're talking about," he smiles. He's irresistible, too!

    In my favorite scene, Robert pays a call on Virginia late in the evening. Scott has beaten him to the office, so he's not allowed any romantic time with her. She ends up sending them both away, and laughing, they realize-alongside the audience-that they can't help but like each other even though they're rivals. It's really impossible to choose between them.
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    Entertaining western

    Fritz Lang's "Western Union" is a entertaining movie with good heroes in Randolph Scott,the strong and silent man trying to escape his outlaw past,Robert Young as the easterner trying to conform to the code of the wild west,and Dean Jagger as the determined boss of the Western Union gang.I think the acting honors go to Dean Jagger who is very good in his part. Randolph Scott found his prototype of western hero in this movie and would play variations of that type in westerns to come for the next two decades.The movie looks very good in early Technicolor. Barton MacLane makes a good villain.I enjoyed this western much,although I consider it pretty standard stuff.
    7claudio_carvalho

    Mistakes Cannot Always Be Corrected

    While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott) helps Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), 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 (Robert Young) flirt with the gorgeous Edward's sister Sue Creighton (Virginia Gilmore) and she chooses Vance. However, his past haunts him when the outlaw Jack Slade (Barton MacLane) steals the Western Union cattle disguised of Indians.

    "Western Union" is a good but predictable western directed by Fritz Lang. The story shows the difficulties of the brave and idealistic men responsible for installing the telegraph through the West, facing thieves and Indians. The entertaining story has action, drama, romance and funny situations, but with the exception of the identity of Jack Slade, there is no surprise in the story. Randolph Scott gives another magnificent performance with a great cast. My vote is seven.

    Title (Brazil): "Os Conquistadores" ("The Conquerors")
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    Historical and lavish Western involving stubborn promoters who carry out the telegraph route from Omaha to Salt Lake City

    A spectacular and mighty adventure during the Civil War when America's destiny rode in the saddle bags of adventurers and hard-working laborers installing the poles and cable . The ¨Western Union¨ feats were similarly developed to ¨Pony Express¨ that was a mail service delivering messages , newspapers , mail , and small packages from St. Joseph , Missouri , across the Great Plains , over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento , California , by horseback , and hardy riders , using a series of relay stations and it reduced the time for messages . It became from April 3 , 1860, to October 1861 , the West's most direct means of east–west communication before the telegraph was established and being vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the United States . Later on , ¨Pony Express¨ was replaced by the telegraph , and ¨Western Union¨ quickly became romanticized and became part of the lore of the American West . ¨Pony Express¨ , stagecoach and freight company ¨Wells Fargo¨ provided secure US mail service until the construction of telegraph lines proceeded by ¨Western Union¨. It was seen as evidence of rugged American individualism of the Frontier times . This movie concerns Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott) gives up outlawing , he meets Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) who leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West ; the latter hires Vance and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor as well as engineer from Harvard , Richard Blake (Robert Young) . Both of whom become romantically involved with the Edward's sister (Viginia Gilmore) . Meanwhile , some outlaws (Barton MacLane) attempting to prevent the company connecting the line and robbing the Western Union cattle masked of Indians Ogalaya .

    This traditional Western of the founding of telegraph routes westward contains thrills , rousing action , frontier adventure , shootouts , Indian attacks and exuberant outdoors . This vintage epic Western turns out to be a throughly entertaining picture that will appeal to Western fans . Big budget Western by Darryl F Zanuck's 20th Century Fox , and even studio publicity noted that Fox contract star Henry Fonda -though uncredited- had served as technical adviser on the film, due to his experience as a young man working as a lineman . Dealing with the political machinations and fights that accompanied the construction of the glamorous ¨Western Union¨ route from Omaha , Nebraska , to Salt Lake City , Utah , in which brave riders battling hostile Indians , cutthroats attempting on robbing , firing , astute bandits and many other things . Screenwriter Robert Carson utilized the title , but not the screenplay , of a Zane Grey novel . The main protagonists result to known players , such as Randolph Scott as a Western reformed outlaw , Robert Young as an obstinate surveyor and Dean Jagger as manager . Support cast is frankly magnificent , such as : John Carradine , Chill Wills , Barton MacLane , Slim Summerville , Charles Middleton and the ordinary Indians : Chief John Big Tree , Chief Thundercloud , Iron Eyes Cody , Jay Silverheels .

    The film displays a brilliant cinematography by expert cameraman Edward Cronjager in rich Technicolor . In addition , thrilling and evocative musical score by David Buttolph . The motion picture produced by Harry Joe Brown and Darryl F Zanuck was compellingly directed by Fritz Lang and with great enthusiasm . This was Lang's second Western , following his favorite ¨The return of Frank James¨ . The German Fritz showed himself a master of the most American of genres , yet made only one more Western : ¨Rancho Notorious¨. As Lang directed masterfully all kind of genres as Noir cinema as ¨Big heat¨ , ¨Scarlet Street¨ and ¨Beyond a reasonable doubt¨ , Epic as ¨Nibelungs¨, suspense as ¨Secret beyond the door¨ , ¨Clash by night¨ and Lang's trilogy about Nazi time as ¨Cloak and dagger¨, ¨Man hunt¨ and ¨Hangmen also die¨, and of course , Sci-Fi with the classic ¨Metropolis¨. Rating Western Union : Better than average . Well worth watching .
    t.mcparland-2

    Western Union And Great Director = Western Poetry

    No one ever really believed that Randolf Scott was a gun toter; he seemed too gentle for that. But the veneer of respectability he gave to his roles helped reinforce the western morality of good superceding evil. Nowhere is this poetry more evident as in Western Union [1941], directed by one of film noir's most gifted geniuses Fritz Lang, here working equally adeptly in colour. The shot of unfinished telegraph lines snaking away into twilight oblivion leaves lasting impressions.

    This western prophecies the long professional relationship between producer Nat Holt and Randolf Scott which ran from 1946 and turned out cliché-westerns which weren't cliches at the time, and which, with practice improved till there was a kind of visual poetry about them. This isn't the history of Western Union, the way the western isn't the history of the old west. But it seems to relate a kind of truth, and that's what matters.

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      The first transcontinental telegraph (completed 10/24/1861 ) was a line that connected the existing network in the eastern US to a small network in California, by means of a link between Omaha (NE) and Carson City (NV)., via Salt Lake City. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and in the formation of the US. It was primarily the work of the newly-founded Western Union Telegraph Company (1851; merged with another in 1856).
    • Pifias
      During the speeches before they start stringing the telegraph wires, all the flags are 48-star flags. There were only 35 states in the Union in 1861.
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      Doc Murdoch: Can you cook lamb?

      Cookie: There are nine different ways to cook mutton. And I know them all!

      Homer Kettle: Never mind that! Do you cook it with the hair on?

      Cookie: I should say not!

      Crowd: Hurray!

      Homer Kettle: Then you're hired!

    • Conexiones
      Edited into Las aventuras de Buffalo Bill (1944)
    • Banda sonora
      Gwine to Rune All Night
      ("De Camptown Races") (1850) (uncredited)

      Written by Stephen Foster

      Played as background music for the first scene in Omaha, Nebraska

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 21 de febrero de 1941 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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    • Títulos en diferentes países
      • Western Union
    • Localizaciones del rodaje
      • Zion National Park, Utah, Estados Unidos
    • Empresa productora
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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      1 hora 35 minutos
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