Overview
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
Cast
- Sterling Hayden as Capt. John Nelson
- Eve Miller as Barbara Bruce
- Barton MacLane as Cal Bruce
- Harry Shannon as Smokestack the Train Engineer
- Tom Fadden as Gus Gustavson the Train Fireman
- Reed Hadley as Bill Quantrill
- Douglas Fowley as Max Janus
- Robert Keys as Lt. Stanton (as Bob Keys)
- Irving Bacon as Casey
- Myron Healey as Morey