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Fritz Lang In America

on BBC Two England

A season of films made by the German director in Hollywood. Western Union starring
The year is 1861 and Western Union are constructing what is to be the first transcontinental telegraph system in the US. Opposition to the project comes not only from Sioux
Indians but also from a group of renegade Southerners. This Zane Grey story, a strictly traditional Western, was, unexpectedly, directed by Lang, and is notable for its dramatic use of landscape.
Screenplay by ROBERT CARSON Associate producer HARRY JOE BROWN
Directed by FRITZ LANG
Television presentation by DAVID THOMPSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Zane Grey
Unknown:
Robert Carson
Producer:
Harry Joe Brown
Directed By:
Fritz Lang
Presentation By:
David Thompson
Richard Blake:
Robert Young
Vance Shaw:
Randolph Scott
Creighton:
Dean Jagger
Sue:
Virginia Gilmore
Doc Murdoch:
John Carradine
Herman:
Slim Summerville
Homer:
Chill Wills

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