---
title: 'Union Pacific (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Cecil B. DeMille'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 135
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/union-pacific-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032080/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Union Pacific (1939)

1939 · 135 min · Drama, Western · United States


## Synopsis

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 Union Pacific 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 to commemorate the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. The film recreates the event using the same 1869 golden spike, on loan from Stanford University.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-b-demille)
- **Producer:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-b-demille)
- **Screenplay:** [C. Gardner Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/c-gardner-sullivan), [Jesse Louis Lasky Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky-jr), [Walter DeLeon](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-deleon)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Leipold](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-leipold), [Sigmund Krumgold](https://cinepixo.com/people/sigmund-krumgold)
- **Director of Photography:** [Victor Milner](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-milner)
- **Editor:** [Anne Bauchens](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-bauchens)

## Cast

- [Monte Blue](https://cinepixo.com/people/monte-blue)
- [Lane Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/lane-chandler)
- [Sam McDaniel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-mcdaniel)
- [Brian Donlevy](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-donlevy)
- [Don Beddoe](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-beddoe)
- [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin)
- [Barbara Stanwyck](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-stanwyck)
- [Nestor Paiva](https://cinepixo.com/people/nestor-paiva)
- [Julia Faye](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-faye)
- [William Haade](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-haade)
- [Morgan Wallace](https://cinepixo.com/people/morgan-wallace)
- [Stanley Ridges](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-ridges)
- [Mary MacLaren](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-maclaren)
- [Lon Chaney Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/lon-chaney-jr)
- [Dick Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-lane)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/union-pacific-1939
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1930992); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.