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The Iron Horse, 1924 directed by John Ford

Published by PublicDomainMovies on September 26, 2022

The Iron Horse is a 1924 American Western silent film directed by John Ford and produced by Fox Film. It was a major milestone in Ford’s career, and his lifelong connection to the western movie genre. It was Ford’s first major film, in part because the hastily planned production went over budget, as Fox was making a hurried response to the success of another studio’s western. In 2011, this film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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The film is about the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It depicts Irish, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, as well as African Americans, as the men who did the backbreaking work that made this feat possible. The primary villain is an unscrupulous businessman who masquerades as a renegade Commanche. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. There is a note in the title before this scene that the two original locomotives from the 1869 event are used in the film, although this is false – both engines (Union Pacific No. 119 and Jupiter) were scrapped before 1910. Main stars were George O’Brien and Madge Bellamy.


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The Iron Horse, 1924 directed by John Ford
Posted in Westerns movies Tagged 1924, George O'Brien, John Ford, Madge Bellamy, silent movie
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