| Union Pacific | |
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| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Written by | Walter DeLeon Jack Cunningham C. Gardner Sullivan |
| Based on | Trouble Shooter (1936 novel) by Ernest Haycox |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Starring | Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea Akim Tamiroff Robert Preston Lynne Overman Brian Donlevy |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Edited by | Anne Bauchens |
| Music by | Sigmund Krumgold John Leipold Gerard Carbonara (uncredited) Leo Shuken (uncredited) Victor Young (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Union Pacific is a 1939 American Western drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Robert Preston. Based on the 1936 novel Trouble Shooter by Western fiction author Ernest Haycox, the film is about the building of the eponymous railroad across the American West. Haycox based his novel upon the experiences of civil engineer Charles H. Sharman, who worked on the railroad from its start in Omaha, Nebraska in 1866 until the golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869[1] to commemorate the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.[1] The film recreates the event using the same 1869 golden spike, on loan from Stanford University.