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Les pionniers de la Western Union

Titre original : Western Union
  • 1941
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 35min
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Randolph Scott, Robert Young, and Virginia Gilmore in Les pionniers de la Western Union (1941)
L'histoireOccidentalWestern classique

Edward Creighton dirige la construction de la Western Union qui reliera l'Est à l'Ouest et embauche un hors-la-loi repenti et un jeune géomètre que tout oppose.Edward Creighton dirige la construction de la Western Union qui reliera l'Est à l'Ouest et embauche un hors-la-loi repenti et un jeune géomètre que tout oppose.Edward Creighton dirige la construction de la Western Union qui reliera l'Est à l'Ouest et embauche un hors-la-loi repenti et un jeune géomètre que tout oppose.

  • Réalisation
    • Fritz Lang
  • Scénario
    • Zane Grey
    • Robert Carson
    • Jack Andrews
  • Casting principal
    • Robert Young
    • Randolph Scott
    • Dean Jagger
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,7/10
    3,5 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Fritz Lang
    • Scénario
      • Zane Grey
      • Robert Carson
      • Jack Andrews
    • Casting principal
      • Robert Young
      • Randolph Scott
      • Dean Jagger
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    • 22avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux75

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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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    • Réalisation
      • Fritz Lang
    • Scénario
      • Zane Grey
      • Robert Carson
      • Jack Andrews
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    oscar-35

    Fritz Lang's masterpiece that John Ford would love!

    I wanted to see this film because my grandfather acted in it. His name is James Spencer. I was in store for other treats in this film. It was awe inspiring to see the scenic vistas that shooting on location brought to this film. I was reminded of John Ford's western films. The acting and characters were very watchable and fun. The film was peppered with the fantastic and not seen lately character acting talents of many contract players of the 30's. A great treat for the eyes and mind.
    7jpdoherty

    Colorful Western From Fritz lang.

    "Western Union" is something of a forgotten classic western! Perhaps the reason for this lies in the fact of its unavailability on DVD in the United States. However, all is not lost as it has now appeared on Region 2 in England. This - being a blessing in some ways - is not only incongruous but totally ironic when one considers that a movie depicting the founding and establishment of such a uniquely American organization as The Western Union Telegraph Company is without a Region 1 release. It beggars belief! It simply doesn't make sense!

    Produced by Fox in 1941 "Western Union" was directed by Fritz Lang. This was only the second occasion the great German director undertook to direct a western! He had done an excellent job the year before with Fox's "The Return Of Frank James" and would have only one more western outing in 1952 with the splendid "Rancho Notorious". Lang was no Ford or Hawks but with "Western Union" he turned in a fine solid western that holds up very well. Beautifully photographed in early three strip Technicolor by Edward Cronjager it boasted a good cast headed by Robert Young, Randolph Scott and Dean Jagger. The female lead is taken by Virginia Gilmore who really has little to do in the picture. An actress who never made anything of her career. Her presence here is merely cosmetic.

    It is curious that Robert Young has top billing over Scott! It is clearly Scott's picture from the very beginning when we first see him in the film's terrific opening scene being chased by a posse across the plains. Young doesn't have much to do throughout the movie and seems out of place in a western. He just looks plain silly going up against Barton McLane in a gunfight! An actor who never really distinguished himself - except perhaps with "Crossfire" (1947)- Young appeared in a string of forgettable romantic comedies in the forties and fifties culminating with his greatest success when for seven years he was TV's "Marcus Welby MD" in the seventies. He died in 1998 at the age of 91.

    "Western Union" recounts the connection by telegraph wire of Omaha and Salt Lake City. Scott plays a reformed outlaw hired by Western Union boss Dean Jagger to protect the line from marauding Sioux and to also take on McLane and his gang who are trying to destroy the line for their own devious ends. Robert Young is the young engineer from back east who joins the company and vies with Scott for the affections of Miss Gilmore. Some comic relief is provided by - and irritatingly so some would say - by Slim Summerville and John Carradine turns up in a meager role as the company doctor.

    Altogether though a spanking good western, albeit on Region 2, but in sparkling good quality that fans will be delighted with. My only crib is that there are no extras, not even a trailer and that terrible cover with those dull graphics. UGH!

    Footnote: Interestingly the associate producer on "Western Union" was Harry Joe Brown who later with Randolph Scott would create a partnership that would produce some of Scott's finest westerns in the fifties.
    8ma-cortes

    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 .
    7KyleFurr2

    pretty good western

    Hard to believe this was directed by Fritz Lang since he mostly directed crime dramas and mysteries. This movie has a cast that includes Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger and John Carradine. Scott plays an outlaw who tries to go straight and leave his old gang and winds up saving Jagger's life. Jagger works for Western Union, a telegraph company that plans to have telegraphs out west. Jagger hires a lot of men to make sure it is done because they have to worry about Indian attacks and bandits. Scott is in charge of the men and Young is a telegraph expert who can't shoot a gun but can ride. Scott meets up with his old gang who want to stop them but Scott can't tell anyone. It's a pretty good western and Lang should of directed some more westerns.
    hugedeal

    Bit of Movie Trivia

    A good part of this movie was shot on location in southern Utah. When Fritz Lang arrived and saw the local Indians who were hired for the movie they were short stocky built people like many of the tribes in the southwestern area of the United States. This did not meet Langs idyllic picture of the tall thin and muscular Indian he had cultivated while he was still in Europe where he was already fascinated with the American west and its's western films. He promptly fired all of the local tribes people and had extras sent from central casting in Hollywood, most of whom were Anglo, to meet his view of Native Americans.

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    • Anecdotes
      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).
    • Gaffes
      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.
    • Citations

      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!

    • Connexions
      Edited into Buffalo Bill (1944)
    • Bandes originales
      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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    • Date de sortie
      • 14 avril 1948 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langues
      • Anglais
      • Sioux
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Western Union
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Zion National Park, Utah, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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      • 1 000 000 $US (estimé)
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      1 heure 35 minutes
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