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Canadian Pacific
The blazing saga of untamed men and a savage wilderness!
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
- Original title
- Canadian Pacific
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Feb 2, 2024 · via TMDB
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.
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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
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)
Sam Ash
Speaker from Ontario (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
Manuel París
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Richard Alexander
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Ray Bennett
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Rudy Bowman
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Jack Kenny
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Cactus Mack
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Joe Phillips
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Ray Spiker
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Jack Tornek
Railroad Worker (uncredited)
Edwin L. Marin
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Dimitri Tiomkin
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