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With the American Civil War looming, construction of the Pacific railroad is being held up in Kansas, sabotaged by Confederate sympathizers. The government dispatches an Army engineer, John Nelson (Sterling Hayden), to oversee construction, and he initially rubs the wrong way both his proud boss (Barton MacLane) and his boss's feisty daughter (Eve Miller). Eventually, though, both fall for Nelson's charms, and the hero seeks to uncover the Southern rat so he can lead the Union men due west.
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00:02:29Now, what's the matter?
00:02:36Look at that!
00:02:37More riots in Kansas, bleeding Kansas.
00:02:52They're sure trying hard to start a war right here.
00:02:54Yeah, some of them are trying to stop one.
00:02:58They're trying to figure out who's going to what.
00:03:00What about those senators walking out like that?
00:03:03I'm telling you, Smokestack, this country is falling to pieces.
00:03:07Oh, no it ain't.
00:03:08It'll take a lot more than arguments for that to happen.
00:03:11And even if we do have a real shooting war,
00:03:14it can only end one way.
00:03:16Why?
00:03:20What the?
00:03:21How dirty, miserable, back-biting skunk.
00:03:46If I could just get my hands on one of them, I...
00:03:48There, Cal, look.
00:03:54Come on down here!
00:03:55Don't you shout at him, Cal.
00:03:57They can't hear you.
00:04:01That one waving his arm around looks like old man Bruce himself.
00:04:04Yeah, he's the only one that gets so mad.
00:04:06The rest of them are used to us by now.
00:04:08You're not supposed to do any killing, Janice.
00:04:10Who's killing him?
00:04:15Get back to the engine!
00:04:31Get us out of here, Smokestack.
00:04:33I'm going to send Junk on a telegram that'll melt the wires.
00:05:03I'll tell you this, then, General.
00:05:11It'll be impossible to finish the line by March
00:05:13unless you furnish me with a military guard
00:05:15to protect my construction crews.
00:05:17We're not at war, Mr. Johnson.
00:05:18That's why we can't send uniformed soldiers
00:05:20into a border state like Kansas at this time.
00:05:23The people who are tearing up my tracks
00:05:25and frightening my construction crews
00:05:27into quitting ought to know the United States Army's
00:05:29back in the Kansas Pacific.
00:05:30If they did, they might very possibly start shooting.
00:05:32The first shot is what starts wars, sir.
00:05:35And our object is to finish this railroad first
00:05:37so we can supply our entire system of frontier posts
00:05:41with men and equipment
00:05:42before a possible armed invasion from the south.
00:05:45All right, General.
00:05:47Even if you won't furnish troops,
00:05:48I'll try to get started again.
00:05:49Excuse me, sir.
00:05:50Ask Captain Nelson to come in, please, Sergeant.
00:05:58Who's Captain Nelson?
00:06:00He's an army engineer, Mr. Johnson.
00:06:02One of the best men we've got.
00:06:04I'm going to lend him to you.
00:06:05What do I need him for?
00:06:07I've got a good instruction.
00:06:08Boss, now he's as good a railroad man
00:06:09as you can find anywhere.
00:06:11Nelson won't interfere with him,
00:06:12but he'll get your railroad built if anybody can.
00:06:15Well, I don't see how.
00:06:16General, I've told you we need at least a troop of soldiers.
00:06:19And you assigned me one man,
00:06:21an army engineer who's probably never built
00:06:22anything bigger than a footbridge.
00:06:24The Kansas Pacific is a military project, Mr. Johnson.
00:06:29Come in.
00:06:35Captain Nelson reporting is ordered, sir.
00:06:37At ease, Captain.
00:06:38Nice to see you again.
00:06:40Thank you, sir.
00:06:41This is Mr. Sherman Johnson, Captain Nelson.
00:06:44How do you do?
00:06:45How do you do, sir?
00:06:46Naturally, the captain will handle this assignment
00:06:48wearing civilian clothes, Mr. Johnson.
00:06:50You'll identify him to your employees
00:06:52as a civilian engineer.
00:06:55All right, General.
00:06:56Now let's get busy.
00:07:01First, you've gone this far, is that correct?
00:07:06That's right.
00:07:07The end of track is 14 miles west of Rockwood, Kansas.
00:07:11We stopped construction there six weeks ago.
00:07:13We haven't moved an inch since.
00:07:15We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:18We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:19We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:20We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:21We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:22We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:23We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:24We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:25We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:26We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:27We haven't moved an inch since we've been in the middle of the night.
00:07:28Oh, my God.
00:07:59Are you going to drink that coffee, or are you just going to stir it until it evaporates?
00:08:03Oh, I'm sorry, Dad.
00:08:08Fine lunch, Miss Barber.
00:08:10Thanks, Gus.
00:08:11Where are you going?
00:08:12Outside. I think I'll polish up the engine a little bit.
00:08:15Again? What do you want to do? Wear it out?
00:08:17Oh, no.
00:08:18Well, then I think I'll chop some cooking wood for Miss Barber.
00:08:21That'll be fine, Gus. Thanks.
00:08:23You're welcome.
00:08:28Some day I'm going to take a 10-pound sledge to that pipe, and I hope it's in your ugly face when I do.
00:08:41I've been waiting for you to try that for 22 years now, you miserable Irish polecat.
00:08:46You're fired.
00:08:48You can't fire me. I quit two hours ago.
00:08:52And now that you two have finished your conversation for the day, why don't you play a little chess for a change?
00:08:57Chess.
00:08:58I'll help you with the dishes.
00:08:59Chess.
00:09:16Casey ever calls before noon. I wonder...
00:09:19No, Casey's probably just lonely and wants to chat.
00:09:23Yeah, couldn't be anything important.
00:09:25I'll be back.
00:09:50Telegram just arrived at the Rockwood office.
00:09:52It's for you, Dad, from Washington.
00:09:54Washington? I don't know anybody in Washington.
00:09:56What do you want them to do, send it back?
00:09:58Oh, tell Casey to open it up and read it to me.
00:10:01I mean send it to me.
00:10:03I already have.
00:10:05Hire the biggest crew possible and start laying track immediately.
00:10:09Smoke stack! This is it!
00:10:11What? This is what we've been waiting for!
00:10:13Wait a minute, there's more.
00:10:24What?
00:10:46What?
00:10:48Barbara, you must have made a mistake.
00:10:50No, Dad, I wish I had.
00:10:52He can't do that to me.
00:10:54I've been putting down track for 20 years
00:10:56without having any construction engineer telling me how.
00:10:59I ain't gonna stand for it.
00:11:01What have I been telling you all these weeks, Dad?
00:11:04This job's been a headache since the beginning.
00:11:06And Johnson knew it when he sent you out here.
00:11:08You're right, he just don't need me anymore.
00:11:10So instead of coming right out and firing me,
00:11:12he put somebody else in charge.
00:11:14I think you're both wrong.
00:11:16You're still the boss, Cal.
00:11:18This engineer will probably just supervise a little.
00:11:21Then when he sees how well things are going, he'll...
00:11:23They won't be going well.
00:11:24They haven't gone well since the day you started the Kansas Pacific.
00:11:27Oh, Dad, you belong back east.
00:11:29Where you can have a decent place to live and a little comfort.
00:11:32You've certainly earned it after 20 years of building railroads.
00:11:35And you won't have any trouble getting work back there.
00:11:37I should have listened to you in the first place.
00:11:40The sooner we can get packed, the sooner we can leave.
00:11:44Well, go on, Smokestack. Get ready.
00:11:46In the first place, I got nothing to get ready.
00:11:49And in the second place, I'm not leaving.
00:11:51What?
00:11:52I said I'm not leaving.
00:11:58I've worked for Sherman Johnson just as long as you have, Cal.
00:12:01I think he's a smart man and a fair boss.
00:12:04And I'm sure he has good reasons for any decisions he makes.
00:12:08Besides, well, it's not just my nature to quit something.
00:12:12I start.
00:12:13Smokestack, you and I have been together for over 20 years.
00:12:15Oh, I can get all the work I want back east, you know that.
00:12:18But, well, it just won't seem right if you don't come along.
00:12:22I'll miss you, Cal.
00:12:23You too, Barbara.
00:12:26Daddy's just trying to get you to change your mind.
00:12:28He'll come with it.
00:12:29No.
00:12:30I'm serious.
00:12:31I've never quit yet.
00:12:32And come to think of it, Cal, you never have either.
00:12:34Ah, this is different.
00:12:35Sure, it's different.
00:12:36The country's about ready to bust out.
00:12:38I've never quit yet.
00:12:39And come to think of it, Cal, you never have either.
00:12:41Ah, this is different.
00:12:42Sure, it's different.
00:12:43The country's about ready to bust wide open.
00:12:46And the line like the Kansas Pacific might help to hold it together.
00:12:49And you want to quit just because they're sending a construction engineer out.
00:12:53He's probably some kid just out of college who thinks you can build a railroad with a slide rule.
00:12:58Well, he'll need all the help he can get.
00:13:01So I'll stick around.
00:13:06He's got a point.
00:13:08Johnson must have some reason.
00:13:10It does look like we might have a war.
00:13:13Dad, don't you start talking about the war, too.
00:13:15What's the sense in worrying about something that'll probably never happen?
00:13:18Well, if we worry enough, maybe it won't happen.
00:13:22You're staying.
00:13:23I guess old Smokestack's right this time.
00:13:26We've had all these diploma boys before, you know.
00:13:29He'll learn soon enough to stay out of our way.
00:13:31Well, all right.
00:13:34But you've got to promise me one thing.
00:13:36If this man turns out to be impossible, we're leaving.
00:13:39I'm not going to let anyone push you around.
00:13:41Have you ever seen anybody push me around and get away with it?
00:13:45Besides you and your mother.
00:13:48Smokestack!
00:13:53Get that pile of tin warmed up and take us into town!
00:14:03You heard him, Gus.
00:14:04Fire up.
00:14:05We're going back to work.
00:14:13Take it away, Smokestack!
00:14:15We're going back to work.
00:14:45The
00:15:04Good afternoon.
00:15:05Fill out the application.
00:15:06We'll let you know.
00:15:08Your bulletin board says no construction until further notice.
00:15:10That'll all be changed when the boss gets here.
00:15:13It should be changed now.
00:15:14I understand track layers are hard to get.
00:15:19Mister, do you want a job or don't you?
00:15:21I've got a job. My name's John Nelson.
00:15:25John Nelson. Name sounds familiar.
00:15:28I knew some Nelsons in Providence, but they all had red hair.
00:15:33Different Nelsons, I expect.
00:15:35I'm sure they are. I'm the new construction engineer.
00:15:40Oh, I see.
00:15:42You must be the man that Mr. Johnson telegraphed about.
00:15:46That's right.
00:15:48Have a chair.
00:15:52Where will I find Mr. Bruce?
00:15:54Oh, he'll be along any minute. You'll hear the engine.
00:15:56Thanks.
00:15:58You're figuring out making some changes around here, I expect.
00:16:00Very possibly.
00:16:04Telegraph operators are even harder to find than track layers.
00:16:07I'll remember that.
00:16:12You.
00:16:14You.
00:16:15You, sir.
00:16:19After you.
00:16:35After you, sir.
00:16:43What do you men want?
00:16:45I'll tell you what we don't want.
00:16:46You and your rebel friends.
00:16:48I've told you before, Corbin, I live in this town and I'm going to stay here.
00:17:18Corbin!
00:17:20Corbin!
00:17:21Let's go.
00:17:51What's going on here Casey I don't know but your new construction engineer is right in the middle of it
00:18:00Don't look like he's using a slide rule now does it
00:18:21Thanks I'm Bill Quantrill you're welcome my name hello Barbara nice to see you mr. Bruce and miss Barbara Bruce mr. Nelson your new construction engineer
00:18:32Well how are you how do you do sir what's this all about just an ordinary fight mr. Bruce
00:18:37I saw mr. Quantrill get jumped by three men and figured the odds were a little heavy
00:18:41What was it all about your local citizens think the town of Rockwood might be better off if I live somewhere else
00:18:48Corbin
00:18:52Are you all right yeah I'm all right but if he's your new construction engineer when you go back to work on that railroad of yours
00:18:58You'll go back without me
00:19:00One of your men mr. Bruce it was probably the best gang boss I had
00:19:06Feelings are running a little strong in Kansas these days Nelson
00:19:10I'm from the south and I've made no secret where my sympathies lie I see good day Barbara
00:19:16Gentlemen
00:19:46They're hiring construction hands again bill looks like the whole town signing up starts out that way every time until we get busy
00:19:53Max you and stone and more a go and get yourselves jobs on the railroad you too Janice
00:19:58Don't bunch up go in one at a time right I'll go in and sign up
00:20:02Say who's this new fella Nelson they've got I don't know anything about him yet except that he's a construction engineer
00:20:08All you boys will get jobs keep your eyes on it
00:20:11I got a feeling he might give us a little trouble we can give him more than he gives us
00:20:15I wouldn't be surprised if we can but don't be too obvious about it any of you
00:20:21That stunt you pulled last month shooting up Bruce and his men wasn't such a smart idea
00:20:26Why not because that kind of foolishness is likely to stir up more trouble than we want
00:20:31First thing you know they'll send troops here good Yankee uniforms will make nice targets
00:20:36It isn't our job to start the war men we're here to stop that train or at least to delay it
00:20:44The longer we keep the Yankees from reaching their western forts by rail the more time we'll give the confederacy to get ready
00:20:50What we're doing is important very important and don't any of you forget it
00:20:56I'll tell you when it's time to start shooting
00:20:58Until that time you'll have to follow orders
00:21:02Are there any arguments
00:21:06No arguments boss I guess some of us are just a little eager
00:21:10There'll be plenty of action for all of us before long
00:21:13Maybe even more than we want
00:21:15Good luck boys I'll see you here tomorrow night
00:21:17Right come on
00:21:36All right be here at seven in the morning
00:21:52Fill this out and sign at the bottom
00:21:55See at seven in the morning next
00:21:57Do it out and sign at the bottom
00:22:06It doesn't seem to be any problem hiring men
00:22:09Why should there be the pay is good and so is the food
00:22:12It's never hard to get plenty of men
00:22:13Crick is to keep them
00:22:15Why don't you rest for a while Mr. Bruce
00:22:17I'll take over for you
00:22:18Suit yourself
00:22:28Pull it out and sign it
00:22:36I'll take it out and sign it out
00:22:37I'll take it out and sign it out
00:22:39Joe Farley
00:22:41All right be here at seven tomorrow morning
00:22:43Uh just a minute Joe
00:22:46You look like a man who's done a little hunting and trapping
00:22:48Am I right?
00:22:49Yeah that's right
00:22:51You own a good rifle?
00:22:52Sure
00:22:53I'd like you to bring it with you tomorrow morning
00:22:55Mr. There's nothing but a few jack rabbits out on the prairie
00:22:58I want you to be a railroad guard Joe
00:23:00Sort of a policeman
00:23:02Pays the same
00:23:04All right
00:23:05Yes sir sounds like a good idea to me
00:23:06Be glad to do it
00:23:08And if any of your friends have good rifles and know how to handle them why tell them to see me
00:23:12Right sir
00:23:19What's the idea of that?
00:23:21It's for the protection of the railroad
00:23:22They're entitled to it especially in these times
00:23:25How many of these armed guards you figuring on hiring?
00:23:28As many as we need
00:23:2940 or 50 if we have to
00:23:30You realize how much this is going to cost the company
00:23:32We'll have to provide horses, cartridges, food, besides their pay
00:23:36That's not our worry
00:23:38We're here to build a railroad
00:23:40All right you men form another line around here
00:23:42We don't want to hang around here all day
00:23:46Fill it out and sign it
00:23:58Let's go
00:24:02All right, get your back, sir.
00:24:32Good morning, Barbara.
00:24:46Nice day.
00:24:47I hadn't noticed, Mr. Nelson.
00:24:49You should.
00:24:50Sunshine and pretty girls go together.
00:24:52You don't say.
00:25:02Sorry, Fred.
00:25:17Why don't you watch those big clumsy feet of yours?
00:25:20I didn't do it on purpose.
00:25:22Get your hands off me.
00:25:23All right, get back to work.
00:25:25Stay out of the way.
00:25:27Let's go.
00:25:28Just a minute.
00:25:39Get out.
00:25:40You're through.
00:25:41Now listen, Nelson, that's no way to build a railroad.
00:25:43You can't fire a man just for stumbling.
00:25:45He didn't stumble.
00:25:46I was deliberate.
00:25:47You're crazy.
00:25:48Why would I want to see this man?
00:25:49You know why better than I do.
00:25:50Now get out of here.
00:25:51I'll throw you out.
00:25:58Take a good look at this man, and if any of you see him around here again, shoot him.
00:26:14If anybody else has any idea about holding up construction, he can leave now.
00:26:23That was nice work, Gus.
00:26:25You saved a man's life by thinking fast.
00:26:33Hey, Nelson.
00:26:36A lot of things like that have been happening around here.
00:26:38I figured it was just bad luck.
00:26:40Some of it probably was, but not this time.
00:26:44I'm sorry I've overruled your orders.
00:26:46I didn't mean to do that.
00:26:47Oh, you didn't?
00:26:48No.
00:26:49You're the construction boss.
00:26:50I'm just an engineer.
00:26:55Whatever he is, we should have had somebody like him around here a long time ago.
00:27:07Six times nine is 54.
00:27:10Six times three is 18.
00:27:12And five is 22.
00:27:1423.
00:27:1523.
00:27:16That's what I said.
00:27:17Now, six times one is six, plus two is eight.
00:27:22That's 834 more ties we'll need by the end of the week, provided nobody quits.
00:27:27Or it's fired by our new construction engineer.
00:27:29Oh, he was right about firing that fellow today, Barbara.
00:27:32If we can weed out the troublemakers, maybe things will improve around here.
00:27:35Well, it seems to me there must be an easier way of doing it than half killing them.
00:27:39Now, look.
00:27:40Even though you were brought up in a railroad car, there are some things about this business
00:27:44you don't understand.
00:27:45I understand it when I see someone trying to take away your job.
00:27:48And that's exactly what he's doing.
00:27:49Oh, no, he isn't.
00:27:50Now, if you'll just listen to me a minute, I...
00:27:52Come on in.
00:27:55Good evening.
00:27:57Hello, Nelson.
00:27:58I'd like to talk with you, if you're not busy.
00:27:59Sure, sit down.
00:28:00Barbara?
00:28:01Maybe Mr. Nelson would like a cup of coffee.
00:28:02Oh, I sure would.
00:28:04Thank you, Barbara.
00:28:05You're very welcome.
00:28:07Thank you, Barbara.
00:28:09You're very welcome.
00:28:11Thank you, Barbara.
00:28:13You're very welcome.
00:28:16Thank you, Barbara.
00:28:18You're very welcome.
00:28:21Thank you, sir.
00:28:22Well, I had an idea today, and I'd like to try it out on you.
00:28:33I think that if we rigged a couple of simple derricks, using block and tackles, why, we could
00:28:37save quite a lot of manpower.
00:28:39Setting the rails in place, you mean?
00:28:41Yes, sir.
00:28:42I've noticed that it takes five or six men to move each rail from the side into the roadbed.
00:28:46This way, one man could provide the lifting power, another could guide the rails, and that
00:28:51would leave four or five men free to work on the roadbed.
00:28:53Well, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
00:28:55I'll tell Smokestack and Gus to figure I'm making a trip to town, get you whatever you
00:28:59need.
00:29:00They can pick up our other stuff at the same time.
00:29:05Well, that's fine.
00:29:06I fooled you, didn't I, young fellow?
00:29:08You thought I was going to give you an argument, didn't you?
00:29:10Yes, sir, I did.
00:29:11And if I had, what would you have done?
00:29:14Well, I don't know exactly.
00:29:16I do.
00:29:17You'd have built them anyway.
00:29:19I told you today, Mr. Bruce, I'm not here to fight with you.
00:29:23I just want to get this line across Kansas as fast as possible, that's all.
00:29:26Well, I'll admit I didn't like the idea of old man Johnson sending somebody out here to
00:29:31take over.
00:29:32But he sent the right man.
00:29:34We'll get along.
00:29:36I'm sure we will, sir.
00:29:38We'll get along even better if you quit calling me sir.
00:29:41This ain't the army, you know.
00:29:51You'll dictate a list of the things you need, Mr. Nelson.
00:29:54I'll telegraph Casey and have them ready with our order.
00:29:57Oh, well, all right.
00:29:59Well, let's see.
00:30:00I'll need a dozen two-by-fours eight feet long, a dozen lengths of two-by-twelve planking
00:30:06ten feet long, a hundred feet of one-inch rope.
00:30:10Let's see.
00:30:11I can get all the chain I need around here, and if I need any more wood, I'll use ties.
00:30:15I guess that's all.
00:30:16Very well.
00:30:17I'd like to talk to you for a moment, Farmer.
00:30:21I just want to say that I'm glad to be here, working with you and your father, and I hope
00:30:25you'll get over your resentment of me quickly.
00:30:28What makes you think we'll resent you, Mr. Nelson?
00:30:30Well, I can understand why you might.
00:30:32But I'm not here to take your father's job from him.
00:30:35He realizes that, I'm sure.
00:30:37We have the same goal, to get the Kansas Pacific build as soon as we can.
00:30:41And to make yourself a reputation as a brilliant young engineer.
00:30:44That's not true.
00:30:45I'm not a career man.
00:30:46I'm an engineer trying to do a job.
00:30:48And I'll need all the help I can get.
00:30:50If my work isn't satisfactory...
00:30:52I'm not talking about your work.
00:30:54Look, I've tried every way I know how to make friends with you.
00:30:57You're not making it very easy for me.
00:30:59I'm sorry, Mr. Nelson.
00:31:01It isn't that I dislike you personally.
00:31:03Good.
00:31:04But I can't very well feel friendly towards someone the company has sent out to replace my father.
00:31:08And that's obviously why you're here.
00:31:10He's too good a railroad man to let it interfere with his work.
00:31:13But I can see how it's hurt him.
00:31:16And I don't like it.
00:31:18Frankly, I'm doing everything I can to persuade him to leave here and go back where he'll be appreciated.
00:31:23But he's appreciated here, believe me.
00:31:25I wish I could, Mr. Nelson.
00:31:28You will.
00:31:29Someday you'll understand that.
00:31:31And I hope it's soon.
00:31:33Because then you and I can be friends.
00:31:37And I'd like that very much.
00:31:53Evening, Mr. Nelson.
00:31:54Good evening, Joe.
00:31:55I was just fixing to send some of the boys out to night guard.
00:31:57Four on, four off, all right?
00:31:58Yeah, that's fine.
00:32:00Hey, the way you talk, you must have some kind of military service.
00:32:04Yes, sir.
00:32:05Under Winfield Scott, the Texas campaign.
00:32:07You've been in the saddle all day, Joe.
00:32:10Lend me your horse and I'll post the night center.
00:32:11Yes, sir.
00:32:16Go tell the cook to keep a big pot of coffee on.
00:32:19Yes.
00:32:20All night.
00:32:25You know, that fella Nelson don't talk like a railroad man.
00:32:29You know something else?
00:32:30I've never seen a construction engineer ride a horse like that either.
00:32:34Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
00:32:37Yeah, but I ain't talking about it.
00:32:39And neither are you.
00:32:42Good night, Joe.
00:32:43Good night.
00:32:44Good night.
00:32:59Good night.
00:33:00Good night.
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00:33:27Good night.
00:33:28Following supplies needed, 850 ties, 150 rails, 25 cases dynamite, 200 feet fused, 10 sledges with extra handles, 12 2x4s, 8 feet long, 12 planks, 2x12, 10 feet long, 100 feet rope, 1 inch.
00:33:44Thanks, Casey.
00:33:46The only thing that sounds good is the 25 cases of dynamite.
00:33:49That's a lot of stuff they're ordering.
00:33:51Sounds like it's almost worth wrecking that train to get rid of.
00:33:53No, I've got other plans for that train when the time comes.
00:33:57What you said, Janice, makes a little sense.
00:34:00That dynamite does sound interesting.
00:34:02The only way I'd be interested in it would be if Nelson was sitting on it and I had a match.
00:34:06Never mind Nelson.
00:34:07If we can stop this line without bloodshed, that's what we're going to do.
00:34:10Is that understood?
00:34:11All right.
00:34:12Just so long as we stop it.
00:34:14Good.
00:34:15How about that dynamite?
00:34:16They'll pick it up with the engine probably in the morning.
00:34:19When they bring it in and get it unloaded, you'll be riding around, Janice, and this is what I want you to do.
00:34:27Well, Janice, we're doing fine.
00:34:47We ought to be able to keep this pace up for a few more days.
00:34:50At least until we get into the rocky country, and even that shouldn't be too bad.
00:34:54We won't have the tunnel.
00:34:56We won't?
00:34:57No, I figure that by swinging the right-of-way north a little, we can take advantage of the terrain.
00:35:02There's a natural pass right here that won't require too much blasting.
00:35:06Well, that's good.
00:35:08So that's where you've been all morning.
00:35:10Right.
00:35:11Well, Jan, I want to give you a little advice.
00:35:14Sure, Cal.
00:35:15Well, what is it?
00:35:15Well, if I was you, I wouldn't go riding around all over this country without sidearms, at least.
00:35:22Maybe you're right.
00:35:23Thanks.
00:35:25It looks like this little northern swing you got laid out is going to take more ties and rails than I got figured.
00:35:31Yeah.
00:35:31These two curves here will run three-eighths of a mile more than a straightaway.
00:35:37At 660 rails at a mile, we'll need 248 more rails.
00:35:42All right.
00:35:43I'll take care of it.
00:35:45There's old Smokestack, right on time.
00:35:57He always gets here just before we run out of supplies.
00:36:15Where have you been?
00:36:21We've been waiting for hours.
00:36:22Quit yapping at me and get your fool dynamite off my train.
00:36:25It's making me nervous.
00:36:26Yeah.
00:36:31Two, three men.
00:36:32Over here.
00:36:36Unload this dynamite.
00:36:38Put it on that black car, over there.
00:36:43Let's go.
00:37:13Let's go.
00:37:43Let's go.
00:38:13Let go of me.
00:38:15Bringing on the job, huh?
00:38:17Let's go.
00:38:19Let's go.
00:38:23Let's go.
00:38:25Let's go.
00:38:27Let's go.
00:38:29Let's go.
00:38:31Let's go.
00:38:33Let's go.
00:38:35Let's go.
00:38:37Let's go.
00:38:39Let's go.
00:38:41Let's go.
00:38:43Let's go.
00:38:45Let's go.
00:38:47Let's go.
00:38:49Let's go.
00:38:51Let's go.
00:38:53Let's go.
00:38:55Let's go.
00:38:57Let's go.
00:38:59Let's go.
00:39:01Let's go.
00:39:03Let's go.
00:39:05Let's go.
00:39:06Let's go.
00:39:07Let's go.
00:39:08There's nothing we can do for him, men.
00:39:09Let's go.
00:39:10Let's go.
00:39:11Let's go.
00:39:12We got track delay, man.
00:39:13We got track delay, men.
00:39:14Not me, mister.
00:39:15I'm through.
00:39:16Let's get going.
00:39:17I'll see to it that nothing like this happens again.
00:39:19How are you gonna do that?
00:39:21From now on, we'll keep the dynamite well away from the tracks.
00:39:24Take the rest of the day off, boys.
00:39:26off boys and we take a fresh start tomorrow morning wait a minute no matter
00:39:30where you put that stuff it can always go up anytime I'm scared mister and I
00:39:34admit it I quit
00:39:38me too well I'm staying they pay good wages around here and I need to work
00:39:45hey I need it too but I need to keep breathing more I've had enough
00:39:56we're in trouble John I know it I could have sworn I heard a gunshot just
00:40:01before that stuff blew
00:40:26no accident no and I think that fight was staged too we'll soon find out I'll
00:40:39make one of those monkeys talk about they've had plenty of time to get away
00:40:42by now well what's next there isn't much more we can do except wait until tomorrow
00:40:48morning and find out how many men we still got working for us what about the men
00:40:51who did this that's a good question Cal but I got a better one what about the man
00:40:55behind them who do you mean I wish I knew but there's somebody somebody who's
00:40:59determined to keep this line from going through this has all been organized the
00:41:03Sabbath hours the threats the unrest I'm sure of it the day we had our first death
00:41:08looks like we're already in the war everybody keeps talking about this is
00:41:12worse than war in a war at least you know you're fighting and while they were
00:41:19trying to figure out what hit him Max and I lit out it all worked out just the way
00:41:23you figured it was the construction gang didn't need much push him to quit
00:41:26either now they got less than half the men they started with good you know we
00:41:31didn't get all that dynamite what do you mean there's still a couple of cases in the
00:41:35tool dead it'd be a shame to let that go to waste Bill I'd kind of like to see that
00:41:40locomotive of there's in pieces
00:41:51hello John Cal good evening Barbara payrolls being delivered tomorrow morning
00:41:56well we better take the training down tonight then and bring the payroll back
00:41:59with us tomorrow tonight what for I want to take Barbara into Rockwood and leave her
00:42:05there what did you think you in case you can switch jobs I can't have you stay
00:42:10out here any longer it's much too dangerous
00:42:12well he stayed here as long as I have because my father mr. but if you've
00:42:17decided to send me away I'm through I quit what about you there oh but you just
00:42:23don't understand oh yes I do maybe mr. Nelson has convinced you that he wants to
00:42:29help you but I know better don't you see he wants us to quit well let's let him have
00:42:33what he wants we'll go back no I'm gonna stay Barbara because I'm needed and so
00:42:38are you we've got to finish this line before the war begins war why does
00:42:43everyone keep listen to me Barbara maybe there's going to be a war and maybe
00:42:46there isn't but we've got to be ready for it the Kansas Pacific is the United
00:42:50States Army project a military line serving the Western force I'm it project
00:42:57when when the army sent him out to take over I'm sorry I didn't tell you about it
00:43:03before but I couldn't I don't know how your father found out about it but that
00:43:06doesn't matter now I just guessed the important thing is that I that we need
00:43:11you I didn't realize that I thought the war talk was just talk I hope it is just
00:43:18the war talk so do I I I I'll help them of course I will I
00:43:33good night girl good night job
00:43:44job
00:43:45good night
00:43:47good night job
00:43:48good night job
00:43:50far
00:43:52good night
00:43:53good mountain
00:43:53I've heard since I arrived in Kansas you mean I can't say
00:43:56no I mean you finally stop calling me mr. Nelson
00:43:58whether John let me
00:44:03it's too dangerous Barbara I can't take a chance on anything happening to you
00:44:07good night
00:44:07I can't take a chance on anything happening to you.
00:44:11Good night.
00:44:13Night, John.
00:44:37There it is, Janice.
00:45:07We've got enough.
00:45:37Let's get out of here.
00:45:47Let's get out of here.
00:45:53Let's get out of here.
00:46:07Let's get out of here.
00:46:11Take care of them.
00:46:37Let's get out of here.
00:46:58Let's go.
00:47:28Let's go.
00:47:58Keep your hands where I can see them and open up those saddlebags.
00:48:20Open those saddlebags or I'll put a bullet in them.
00:48:39I've got five seconds.
00:48:41One.
00:48:45Two.
00:48:47Three.
00:48:49Four.
00:48:52Five.
00:48:57Don't.
00:48:58I'll open them.
00:49:11What's trouble here?
00:49:13I want these men arrested.
00:49:15They assaulted a guard and stole that dynamite from the Kansas Pacific.
00:49:18You'll find a third man lying out on the prairie.
00:49:24Let's go.
00:49:41I see a lot of men here who quit working for the railroad after the accident we had today.
00:49:46Well, I'm offering you extra wages to come back.
00:49:49Double pay for every man who stays with the line until we hit the Colorado border.
00:49:53Well, I don't know about the rest of them, Mr. Nelson, but I'll go back to work.
00:49:56I like the way you do business.
00:49:58Let go for me, too.
00:50:00Thanks, men. I'll see you all on the job first thing in the morning.
00:50:04Right now, the drinks are on me.
00:50:11Have a drink with me, Nelson. I owe you one.
00:50:16All right. Bourbon, please, Chuck.
00:50:19Take it, too.
00:50:26Your health.
00:50:29Thanks very much.
00:50:31Just offhand, I'd say that you were regarding me with suspicion, my friend.
00:50:36That's a possibility?
00:50:38You don't think I had anything to do with that incident of you?
00:50:41I hope you didn't, Quantrill.
00:50:43Two men were killed today.
00:50:45One of mine and one of somebody else's.
00:50:49It might have been more than that if you'd fired into that dynamite.
00:50:53Would you have done it?
00:50:55That's going pretty far just to prove simple robbery.
00:50:59You're a dangerous man, Nelson.
00:51:02There are others around who are much more dangerous.
00:51:05Thanks for the drink.
00:51:08Thanks for the drink.
00:51:35Thanks for your follow-up, Nicola.
00:51:36Thanks for your love.
00:51:37Thanks for your love.
00:51:38Dr.
00:51:59Well, I've looked in a while.
00:52:04No time for this one. Get out of sight.
00:52:34What's the matter?
00:52:36Rocks.
00:53:05Look out!
00:53:21Get back, Gus.
00:53:34Keep shooting. We'll get him.
00:53:36He can't go nowhere.
00:53:37Get down!
00:53:42Keep shooting. We'll get him.
00:53:43He can't go nowhere.
00:53:47Get down!
00:53:51Can the engine shove those rocks off the track?
00:54:04I might, but we'd be going so slow when we got by him, they could shoot right into the cab.
00:54:10I'll take care of that.
00:54:12Can you handle the damage that he'll go through?
00:54:14Get down!
00:54:15When they got by them, they could shoot right into the cab.
00:54:18I'll take care of that.
00:54:20Can you handle a throttle?
00:54:22I'll try.
00:54:32They get fires we can't miss.
00:54:34What about the payroll?
00:54:35Never mind that.
00:54:37It's Nelson we're after.
00:54:45Let's go.
00:55:15I'm going to go in.
00:55:38Calm, this comes against him, but I don't see smokestack.
00:55:45Nelson's all alone in the cab.
00:55:47Something must have happened.
00:55:57It's his arm, Cal.
00:55:58What happened, John?
00:55:59Ambush. Gus is dead.
00:56:00I can handle the engine, Mr. Nelson.
00:56:02I'll take Smokestack to a doctor.
00:56:04No, I'll put him in the cabozin telegraph for a doctor.
00:56:06All right.
00:56:07Easy, fellas.
00:56:09Careful now.
00:56:10All right.
00:56:12Easy.
00:56:14This is bad, John.
00:56:19Gus killed, Smokestack hurt.
00:56:24Cal, he's going to be all right.
00:56:26What's going to happen next?
00:56:28Nothing if I can help it.
00:56:30We're going to double the armed guard right now.
00:56:32Then we're going to start and lay track again.
00:56:44Let's go.
00:56:46Don't leave the men's help.
00:56:47Run until late.
00:56:49I'll be all alone.
00:56:50I'll be kidding, John.
00:57:04Move the Wieck and Sees.
00:57:06Then you're hungry.
00:57:07Who is it, President, stop her.
00:57:30Send it over on the desk.
00:57:33Send it over on the desk.
00:57:42Get him up.
00:57:47Get over.
00:57:56Get his gun.
00:58:03Let's move.
00:58:15Let's move.
00:58:33Any trouble?
00:58:47Yeah, with the sheriff. They need a new one now.
00:58:49You had to kill him.
00:58:50Yeah. Some of our men are missing. Where Stone and Moria?
00:58:53Dead. Nelson killed them.
00:58:57Just a minute, Janice. You'll never get near him now. I'm sure he's put on extra guards.
00:59:01What do you expect us to do? Stand by and let them build that railroad?
00:59:03That's right.
00:59:04We've got enough men to give them a bad time, boss.
00:59:06And we can recruit more without any trouble.
00:59:08We'll do that recruiting, all right.
00:59:09But right now, I have other plans for the Kansas Pacific.
00:59:12Tracks are one thing, but trains running on them are another.
00:59:15What's this all about?
00:59:16Let them spend their money and time building.
00:59:18They've got too many men now for us to stage any kind of an attack.
00:59:21But the minute they put a train on those tracks, we'll blow it off the prairie.
00:59:24With what?
00:59:25With artillery.
00:59:26We'll line up on the tracks from one of those uphill passes where the engine has to slow down and...
00:59:30Are you figuring on stealing some cannons from the Yankee army?
00:59:33No, just requisitioning them from the Confederate army.
00:59:37With artillery.
00:59:39What?
00:59:40What?
00:59:41What I'm trying to say.
00:59:42Let's go.
01:00:12Oh, Dad, you did it.
01:00:16We sure did.
01:00:23Congratulations, John.
01:00:24Well, same to you.
01:00:26Somebody ought to be buying a few drinks around here.
01:00:28Isn't every day we finish a railroad, you know?
01:00:31Oh, I almost forgot.
01:00:32There's a telegram for you.
01:00:33It's a train coming in from Kansas City.
01:00:35We're in business, all right, and just in time.
01:00:57The war's very close, isn't it, John?
01:00:59It looks like it might be.
01:01:05All right, boys, on your toes.
01:01:35Stand by.
01:01:45Commence firing!
01:02:05All right, boys.
01:02:13All right, boys.
01:02:15We got them, boys.
01:02:41Let's get these guns out of here.
01:03:05Well, there's a place, all right.
01:03:07Did you see any tracks when you came up?
01:03:08No, sir.
01:03:09I figured they covered them up so we couldn't trail them.
01:03:31Is that all, Cal?
01:03:32Yep.
01:03:33Everybody else is afraid of getting shot at with cannons.
01:03:35They won't use artillery on personnel, trains are their targets.
01:03:39Well, these are the only men I've been able to convince of that.
01:03:43Repairing that track won't be easy, but we'll get it done.
01:03:46Let's go.
01:03:47What about Quanto?
01:03:48We couldn't find him.
01:03:49Nobody around here seen him for weeks.
01:03:51What about Quanto?
01:03:52Let's go.
01:03:52Let's do this.
01:03:53Listen.
01:03:53Let's go.
01:03:54Put us in, Elsie.
01:04:12Let's go.
01:04:14Let's go.
01:04:15Let's go.
01:04:16Let's go.
01:04:17Let's go.
01:04:18Let's go.
01:04:19Let's go.
01:04:20Let's go.
01:04:21Let's go.
01:04:22Let's go.
01:04:23Let's go.
01:04:44Well, Stan.
01:04:45How are you?
01:04:46Uh, Nelson.
01:04:47I'm not much of a secret anymore.
01:04:49What brings you here?
01:04:50Well, since we lost that last train, the General decided not to telegraph about the next one.
01:04:54He sent me to tell you.
01:04:55The next one?
01:04:56Well, we can't risk another train until we locate those guns and put them out of action.
01:05:00You're gonna risk it anyway, Captain.
01:05:01If you telegraph the General, it would take you a week to repair the damage.
01:05:04The week's up tomorrow.
01:05:05That's when the train's coming through.
01:05:08Ammunition again?
01:05:09And troops.
01:05:10Reinforcements for Kearney and the other western forts.
01:05:13We can't wait any longer, Captain.
01:05:16All right.
01:05:18Joe.
01:05:19Sir.
01:05:20Can you round up a half a dozen men who can ride and shoot?
01:05:22You mean to go out after them cannons there?
01:05:24Yeah.
01:05:25There are a few boys I know that like that.
01:05:26They're not much in land track in the middle of a prairie, but they ride and shoot real well.
01:05:30Good.
01:05:31Outside of that hill there, there's only one other piece of high ground between Rockwood and the Colorado border that commands the track.
01:05:37If they use those guns again, I figure that's where they'll be.
01:05:40I know the place you mean.
01:05:41You go back to Smokestack and meet me here in the morning.
01:05:43Yes, sir.
01:05:45Stanton and I have an idea.
01:05:46It may not work, but we have to try it.
01:05:48I want you to get back to Kansas City and hold up that troop train and...
01:05:51I can't do that, Captain.
01:05:52Well, what I got in my mind won't take you long to set up.
01:05:55Now, here's the way it works.
01:05:57The pack stands through here is where you have to go.
01:06:00Hold it up.
01:06:27Give your horses a breather, men.
01:06:30We ought to be able to see the pass from that next rise there.
01:06:33We won't get any rest then if those guns...
01:06:42Polkstack's rolling that train.
01:06:44No wonder they're making such good time.
01:06:45Come on.
01:06:57Take a look.
01:07:14Commence firing.
01:07:27Fire.
01:07:48Fire.
01:07:54Get that gun.
01:07:57Fire.
01:08:22Keep firing.
01:08:23Get the rifles.
01:08:27Let's go.
01:08:57Let's go.
01:09:27Let's go.
01:09:57Let's go.
01:09:59Let's go.
01:10:01Let's go.
01:10:03Let's go.
01:10:05Let's go.
01:10:07Let's go.
01:10:09Let's go.
01:10:11Let's go.
01:10:13Let's go.
01:10:15Let's go.
01:10:17Let's go.
01:10:19Let's go.
01:10:23Get up.
01:10:25Get up.
01:10:33Get up.
01:10:35Get up.
01:10:37Get up.
01:10:39Take care of him.
01:10:41All clear, sir.
01:10:42We got them all.
01:10:43You feel all right, Joe?
01:10:44Sure.
01:10:45Well done.
01:10:46Thank you, sir.
01:10:47Thank you, sir.
01:10:48Thank you, sir.
01:10:49Thank you, sir.
01:10:50All clear, sir.
01:10:51We got them all.
01:10:52You feel all right, Joe?
01:10:53Sure.
01:10:54Well done.
01:10:55Thank you, sir.
01:10:56All clear, sir.
01:10:57We got them all.
01:10:58You feel all right, Joe?
01:10:59Sure.
01:11:00Well done.
01:11:01Thank you, sir.
01:11:02Thank you, sir.
01:11:31Thank you, sir.
01:11:48Sometimes I think I'd rather go off the war than I hang around here smelling that pipe.
01:11:53Shut up.
01:11:56Goodbye, Barbara.
01:11:57I'll be back.
01:11:58And I'll be here.
01:12:00or wherever else the building they are.
01:12:06Wood!
01:12:07All Wood!
01:12:25I hope this thing is over soon so that young fella can come back
01:12:28and help us build that track all the way across the country.
01:12:32He'll be back.
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