“UNION PACIFIC.”
WELL SUSTAINED FILM. Cecil B. DeAlille, with his flair for detail and vast panoramic effects, has made an outstanding action film in “Union Pacific,” a super offering produced and directed by him for Paramount. Besides being a well-sustained narrative, the film reflects the energetic and imaginative approach of America to colossal enterprises. There have been a number of major offerings depicting, in part, this particular phase of pioneering development, but none has so well suggested the magnitude of the task which provides the picture’s vitalising and historic subject. The atmosphere' of the film is excellent. The railroad with the seething and heterogeneous mass of humanity that helped to build it, becomes something very real, particularly in such scenes as where experiments are made at the cost ol lives, but' end successfully. Inevitably, such a story as “Union Pacific” has to be a colourful and exciting blend of spectacle and individual effort; of history and personalities; of turbulence, .chicanery and heroic gestures.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 20, 3 November 1939, Page 3
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