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The Iron Horse (1924)
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History , Romance , Western
George O'Brien , Madge Bellamy , Charles Edward Bull , Cyril Chadwick , Will Walling , Francis Powers , J. Farrell MacDonald , Jim Welch , George Waggner ,
Fred Kohler , James A. Marcus , Gladys Hulette
John Ford
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1924
Springfield| Illinois. Brandon| a surveyor| dreams of building a railway to the west| but Marsh| a contractor| is sceptical. Abraham Lincoln looks on as their
children| Davy Brandon and Miriam Marsh| play together. Brandon sets off with Davy to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the
expected distance| but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them| a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand| kills Brandon and scalps him.
Davy buries his father... Years pass. It is 1862 and Lincoln signs the bill authorizing construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways. Marsh is
principal contractor and Miriam is engaged to Jesson| the chief engineer... Crews of Chinese| Italians| and Irish work to build the railway while resisting Indian
attack. When the pay train is delayed by Indian ambush| the Italians go on strike. Miriam persuades them to return to work... Marsh needs to find a shortcut through
the Black Hills. To ...