Réalisation:
John FordScénario:
Charles KenyonPhotographie:
George SchneidermanActeurs·trices:
George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Waggner, Fred Kohler, Gladys Hulette, Will Walling, Peggy Cartwright (plus)Résumés(1)
Davy voit son père se faire assassiner sous ses yeux. Plusieurs années après, le meurtrier, devenu riche, essaie d'escroquer la Central Pacific, qui construit le chemin de fer. Lorsque Davy est engagé par la même Central Pacific, les deux hommes se retrouvent face à face. Dès lors, une lutte à mort commence dans laquelle Miriam, amie d'enfance de Davy, et les indiens auront un rôle à jouer. (Sidonis Calysta)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Traditional American pathos in the embryonic stage, which somehow inadvertently evokes the sincere amusement and enthusiasm that German films of the era possess with their period rigidity, tension and naivety. Unlike the ideologically and visually brilliant and sophisticated German film, The Iron Horse instead amazes with some technical innovations and also with the fact that it essentially predefines the later form of westerns. You can only watch this film with a slight smile on your face, because the shallow mix of melodrama and the celebration of the work of railway workers is truly purely period-like. Nevertheless (or precisely because of that), this is a wonderful example of silent craft and a film in the true sense of the word canonical.
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