![all posters](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w140/files/images/film/posters/165/218/165218488_de8aaf.jpg)
Directed by:
Byron HaskinScreenplay:
Frank GruberCinematography:
Ray RennahanComposer:
Paul SawtellCast:
Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers, Lyle Bettger, J. Carrol Naish, Zasu Pitts, Tom Powers, Robert Barrat, Paul Fix, Forrest Taylor (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Competing rail lines Denver & the Rio Grand and Canyon City & San Juan take on each other and the untamed wilderness of the Rockies in the 1870s in order to finish a tie-line through Denver. Bullets fly and locomotives smash head-on as the companies each do all within their power to be first across the mountains. Real, full-size trains were used in the thrilling action sequences. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Edmond O'Brien](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/363/164363763_89b8f5.png)
Edmond O'Brien
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
White Heat (1949)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
![Sterling Hayden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/570/164570668_8c2e9a.jpg)
Sterling Hayden
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
![Dean Jagger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/361/164361457_1c37a3.jpg)
Dean Jagger
USA
Best movies:
The Nun's Story (1959)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Vanishing Point (1971)
![Kasey Rogers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/053/160053828_6218e6.jpg)
Kasey Rogers
USA
Best movies:
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
![Lyle Bettger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/046/576/46576551_21ae16.jpg)
Lyle Bettger
USA
Best movies:
All I Desire (1953)
Union Station (1950)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
![J. Carrol Naish](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/496/162496262_365e7f.png)
J. Carrol Naish
USA
Best movies:
Captain Blood (1935)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
![Zasu Pitts](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/343/343618_c34113.jpg)
Zasu Pitts
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Greed (1924)
Life with Father (1947)
![Tom Powers](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/283/161283042_6a7ac0.jpg)
Tom Powers
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Tall Target (1951)
![Robert Barrat](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/741/158741974_e1bd06.jpg)
Robert Barrat
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
![Paul Fix](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272347_af9850.jpg)
Paul Fix
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Scarface (1932)
Forrest Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Winchester '73 (1950)
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
Lester Dorr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Chet Brandenburg
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
White Heat (1949)
Merrill McCormick
USA
Best movies:
Robin Hood (1922)
If I Were King (1938)
Texas (1941)
Fred Graham
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
George Magrill
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Love Crazy (1941)
![James Burke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/961/159961965_a40f08.jpg)
James Burke
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Bob Burns
USA
Best movies:
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955)
The Plainsman (1936)
![Don Haggerty](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/873/159873683_fe51d0.jpg)
Don Haggerty
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
![Jimmie Dundee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/417/160417421_ce919a.jpg)
Jimmie Dundee
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)