
The Great Train Robbery(1903)
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.


“The blazing saga of untamed men and a savage wilderness!”
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

Randolph Scott
Tom Andrews

Jane Wyatt
Dr. Edith Cabot

J. Carrol Naish
Dynamite Dawson

Victor Jory
Dirk Rourke

Nancy Olson
Cecille Gautier

Robert Barrat
William Van Horne

John Parrish
Mr. Gautier
Mary Kent
Mrs. Gautier

Walter Sande
Mike Brannigan

Don Haggerty
Cagle
Canadian Pacific is a western, adventure, history, romance film released in 1949 exploring themes of dynamite, railroad, western. Directed by Edwin L. Marin, it stars Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish. A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
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