
Tall in the Saddle(1944)
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.


“Hard-as-spikes men and soft-as-silk women ... they ran into towering canyons and Comanche terror when they ran the railroad to the Gold Coast.”
A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.

Jock Mahoney
Ross Granger

Peggie Castle
Ann Dennison

Adele Jergens
Jessie Loraine

William Bishop
Del Stewart

Chubby Johnson
Sheriff Blaney

Walter Sande
Mr. Dennison

Chris Alcaide
Jason

Pat Hogan
Dark Thunder

Fred Graham
Jenks - Stage Driver
Overland Pacific is a western film released in 1954 exploring themes of saloon, range war, railroad, crooked sheriff. Directed by Fred F. Sears, it stars Jock Mahoney, Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens. A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.
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