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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
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    • Réalisation
      • Fritz Lang
    • Scénario
      • Zane Grey
      • Robert Carson
      • Jack Andrews
    • Casting principal
      • Robert Young
      • Randolph Scott
      • Dean Jagger
    • 54avis d'utilisateurs
    • 22avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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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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    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.
    6nnnn45089191

    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.
    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.
    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.

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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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    • How long is Western Union?Alimenté par Alexa

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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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    • Budget
      • 1 000 000 $US (estimé)
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    • Durée
      • 1h 35min(95 min)
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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