Union pacific cecil b demille biography

1939 film by Cecil B. DeMille

Union Pacific is a 1939 American Westerndrama directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Robert Preston.

Based on the 1936 novel Trouble Shooter by Western fiction authorErnest Haycox, the film is about the building of the eponymous railroad across the American West. Haycox based his novel upon the experiences of civil engineerCharles 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.

Plot

The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barr