Movie · 1953
Kansas Pacific
“Built by bullets, dynamite, and blood-stained spikes!”
Released 22 February 1953 73 min Western / Action More from 1953 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
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How old were they?
Harry Shannon
as Smokestack the Train Engineer
Jonathan Hale
as Sherman Johnson
Irving Bacon
as Casey
Tom Fadden
as Gus Gustavson the Train Fireman
Barton MacLane
as Cal Bruce
Reed Hadley
as Bill Quantrill
Douglas Fowley
as Max Janus
Clayton Moore
as Henchman Stone
James Griffith
as Joe Farley
Sterling Hayden
as Capt. John Nelson
Robert Keys
as Lt. Stanton (as Bob Keys)
Eve Miller
as Barbara Bruce
Myron Healey
as Morey
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The numbers
33years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Harry Shannon — oldest on the call sheet
29Myron Healey — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast