Randolph Scott

Jane Wyatt

J. Carrol Naish

Victor Jory

Nancy Olson

Robert Barrat

John Parrish

Mary Kent

Walter Sande

Don Haggerty

John Hamilton

Grandon Rhodes

Dick Wessel

George Chandler

Howard Negley

Ralph Clanton

Chief Yowlachie

Norman Jewison

Earle Hodgins

Edmund Cobb

Chris Willow Bird

Ben Erway

Sam Ash

Holmes Herbert

Bert Stevens

Manuel París

Oliver Cross

Al Haskell

Richard Alexander

Ray Bennett

Nick Borgani

John Bose

Rudy Bowman

Chet Brandenburg

Roy Bucko

Art Felix

Kit Guard

Ray Jones

Jack Kenny

Sam Lufkin

Cactus Mack

Kermit Maynard

Merrill McCormick

Billy McCoy

Rowland McCracken

Robert Milasch

Anton Northpole

Joe Phillips

Ray Spiker

Jack Tornek

Roque Ybarra

Edwin L. Marin

Lewis J. Rachmil

Jack DeWitt

Bill McLellan

Rod Tolmie

Lee Greenway

Kenneth Gamet

Nat Holt

Philip Martin

Fred Jackman Jr.

Dimitri Tiomkin

Ernst Fegté

Western

Adventure

History

Romance

Canadian Pacific

Nat Holt Productions

20th Century Fox

United States of America

CinemaSerf

I was never a great fan of Randolph Scott - he never really imposed himself onto the screen, and here he doesn't really either. It doesn't help that the plot is a fairly well trammelled one. He ("Andrews") is the railroad surveyor who falls foul of the local fur traders who fear that the steel monster will decimate local trade. His antagonists are no slouches. "Rourke" (Victory Jory) and "Dynamite Dawson" (J. Carrol Naish) being determined to thwart his engineering plans and so resort to enlisting the help of the local Indians who want no truck with these interlopers at all, much less their destructive construction project that will further destroy their ancestral home. In order to convince the locals that the train would be a good thing for their community, he promises to settle with his gal "Cecille" (the rather wooden Nancy Olson) but that doesn't really cut much ice with an opposition that now has him firmly in it's sights and that sees him soon under the care of local doctor "Edith" (a competent Jane Wyatt) with whom, well you can guess the rest. Indeed, that's really the problem with all of this - it's just too predicable. There is some action now and again and a bit of rousing speechifying too, but for the most part this is an adequately photographed pioneering tale that we've seen a few times before - only with a more charismatic lead. It's watchable, but the title doesn't really help it much and it's all fairly forgettable afternoon cinema fayre.

English

Canadian Pacific (1949) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HQ]