OCTAGON THEATRE
ZANE GREY'S "WESTERN UNION" A brilliant cast, headed by Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, and Virginia Gilmore, brings to life Zane Grey's story, " Western Union," which is the' main attraction for a season commencing at the Octagon Theatre to-mor-row. " Western Union," produced by 20th Century-Fox, and filmed in technicolor, lacks nothing of the absorbing interest of the book, and from start to finish it is packed with action, drama, and thrilling adventure. Dean Jagger, portraying Edward Creighton, the telegraph builder, with Robert Taylor as a tenderfoot surveyor, and Randolph Scott as a reformed outlaw, give outstanding performances as members of a wagon train which starts out across the prairies to erect the telegraph over a West infested with renegades and hostile Indians. Under Director Fritz Lang's superb direction, the sweeping suspense of the picture is well maintained throughout as the builders of the first transcontinental line combat the dangers which beset them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24827, 29 January 1942, Page 9
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155OCTAGON THEATRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24827, 29 January 1942, Page 9
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