Union Pacific (film)

Union Pacific
Theatrical film poster
Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Written by	Walter DeLeon Jack Cunningham C. Gardner Sullivan
Based on	Trouble Shooter (1936 novel) by Ernest Haycox
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Starring	Barbara Stanwyck Joel McCrea Akim Tamiroff Robert Preston Lynne Overman Brian Donlevy
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Edited by	Anne Bauchens
Music by	Sigmund Krumgold John Leipold Gerard Carbonara (uncredited) Leo Shuken (uncredited) Victor Young (uncredited)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 5, 1939 (1939-05-05)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Union Pacific is a 1939 American Western drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Robert Preston. Based on the 1936 novel Trouble Shooter by Western fiction author Ernest Haycox, the film is about the building of the eponymous railroad across the American West. Haycox based his novel upon the experiences of civil engineer Charles H. Sharman, who worked on the railroad from its start in Omaha, Nebraska in 1866 until the golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869^[1] to commemorate the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.^[1] The film recreates the event using the same 1869 golden spike, on loan from Stanford University.