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Summary

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

Cast

Randolph Scott

Tom Andrews

Jane Wyatt

Dr. Edith Cabot

J. Carrol Naish

Dynamite Dawson

Victor Jory

Dirk Rourke

Nancy Olson

Cecille Gautier

Robert Barrat

William Van Horne

John Parrish

Mr. Gautier

Mary Kent

Mrs. Gautier

Walter Sande

Mike Brannigan

Don Haggerty

Cagle

John Hamilton

Pere Lacomb

Grandon Rhodes

Dr. Mason

Dick Wessel

Bailey

George Chandler

Telegraph Operator

Howard Negley

Mallis

Ralph Clanton

Opening Narrator (voice)

Chief Yowlachie

Indian Chief (uncredited)

Norman Jewison

Joe Podge (uncredited)

Earle Hodgins

Sandy McNair (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Jim (uncredited)

Chris Willow Bird

Indian Chief (uncredited)

Ben Erway

British Columbia Representative (uncredited)

Sam Ash

Speaker from Ontario (uncredited)

Holmes Herbert

Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Manuel París

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Oliver Cross

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Al Haskell

Trapper (uncredited)

Richard Alexander

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Ray Bennett

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Nick Borgani

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

John Bose

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Rudy Bowman

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Roy Bucko

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Art Felix

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Ray Jones

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Jack Kenny

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Sam Lufkin

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Cactus Mack

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Merrill McCormick

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Billy McCoy

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Rowland McCracken

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Robert Milasch

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Anton Northpole

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Joe Phillips

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Ray Spiker

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Jack Tornek

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Roque Ybarra

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Edwin L. Marin

Screenplay

Kenneth Gamet

Screenplay, Story

Jack DeWitt

Reviews

Geronimo1967

February 2, 2024

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.