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"Built by bullets, dynamite, and blood-stained spikes!"
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
13 Cast Members
Sterling Hayden
Capt. John Nelson
Eve Miller
Barbara Bruce
Barton MacLane
Cal Bruce
Harry Shannon
Smokestack the Train Engineer
Tom Fadden
Gus Gustavson the Train Fireman
Reed Hadley
Bill Quantrill
Douglas Fowley
Max Janus
Robert Keys
Lt. Stanton (as Bob Keys)
Irving Bacon
Casey
Myron Healey
Morey
James Griffith
Joe Farley
Clayton Moore
Henchman Stone
Jonathan Hale
Sherman Johnson
