"Kansas Pacific" is a poor, generic, low-budget Western. It stars actor Sterling Hayden as a Union soldier tasked with protecting the Kansas Pacific Railway from Confederate attacks.
The complex, parasitic relationship between Union forces and Industrialists - the army essentially protected northern business cartels - isn't examined, but the film does contain several lovely shots of a grand steam engine, which is unusual, as the film was produced by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, a Poverty Row "studio" renowned for its unwillingness to spend money. Today the film's mostly forgotten. Sterling Hayden completists may find it interesting.
2/10 - Worth one viewing.
The complex, parasitic relationship between Union forces and Industrialists - the army essentially protected northern business cartels - isn't examined, but the film does contain several lovely shots of a grand steam engine, which is unusual, as the film was produced by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, a Poverty Row "studio" renowned for its unwillingness to spend money. Today the film's mostly forgotten. Sterling Hayden completists may find it interesting.
2/10 - Worth one viewing.