Reżyseria:
John FordScenariusz:
Charles KenyonZdjęcia:
George SchneidermanObsada:
George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Waggner, Fred Kohler, Gladys Hulette, Will Walling, Peggy Cartwright, Chief Eagle Wing (więcej)Opisy(1)
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. (MUBI)
Recenzje (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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