Union Pacific (1939)
Drama, Western • 2h 15m
Overview
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Robert Barrat, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker, Francis McDonald, Willard Robertson, Evelyn Keyes, Richard Lane, William Haade, Regis Toomey, J.M. Kerrigan, Fuzzy Knight, Harry Woods, Lon Chaney Jr., Joseph Crehan, Julia Faye, Sheila Darcy, Ernie Adams, Stanley Andrews, Richard Alexander, George Anderson, Sam Ash, Earl Askam, Harry A. Bailey, May Beatty, Don Beddoe, Genevieve Bell, Monte Blue, Ward Bond, Dick Botiller, Ed Brady, Tom Burke, George Burton, A.S. Byron, E.H. Calvert, Steve Carruthers, Nora Cecil, Wheaton Chambers, Lane Chandler, Jack Chapin, Sonny Chorre, Davison Clark, Jack Rube Clifford, David Clyde, Iron Eyes Cody, Allen Connor, Hal Craig, Sidney D'Albrook, Max Davidson, Alfonso De Cruz, Victor De Linsky, Richard Denning, Mike Driscoll, Tex Driscoll, Peter Du Rey, Jimmie Dundee, Paul Everton, Jim Farley, Martin Faust, Maude Fealy, John Fee, Eddie Fetherston, James Flavin, Byron Foulger, J. C. Fowler, George B. French, Will Geer, Kenneth Gibson, Joe Gilbert, William Gillis, Wesley Giraud, Gus Glassmire, Dick Gordon, Douglas Gordon, Wylie Grant, George Guhl, Chuck Hamilton, Pat Hartigan, Beth Hartman, Edward Hearn, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Russell Hicks, Leon Holmes, Robert Homans, Mitchell Ingraham, T.C. Jack, Selmer Jackson, Si Jenks, Noble Johnson, Jack W. Johnston, Edward Keane, Jane Keckley, Jim Kelso, Jack Kennedy, Bob Kortman, Frank Lackteen, Ethan Laidlaw, Florence Lake, Bobby LaSalle, Alexander Leftwich, Edward LeSaint, Elmo Lincoln, Walter Long, Viola Louie, Evelyn Luckey, Hugh MacDonald, Wilbur Mack, Mary MacLaren, George Magrill, Tom Mahoney, Mala, John Marston, Ida May, Charles McAvoy, Sam McDaniel, Charles McMurphy, James McNamara, John Merton, Ray Miller, Frank Mills, Pat Moriarity, Adrian Morris, Horace Murphy, Jack Murphy, Louis Natheaux, Nestor Paiva, Emory Parnell, Doreen Pastor, William Pawley, Edward Peil Sr., Jack Pennick, Albert Petit, James Pierce, Russ Powell, John Power, Hal Price, Frances Rather, George Regas, John J. Richardson, Cyril Ring, Margaret Roach, Buddy Roosevelt, Dick Rush, Joe Sawyer, Francis Sayles, Syd Saylor, Ed Schaefer, Ynez Seabury, Frank Shannon, Michael Slade, Lew Short, James P. Spencer, Edwin Stanley, Robert R. Stephenson, Bert Stevens, Charles Stevens, Mark Strong, John M. Sullivan, Albert Taylor, Nick Thompson, Chief Thundercloud, David Thursby, Archie Twitchell, Tony Urchel, Guy Usher, Morgan Wallace, Calla Waltz, Ruth Warren, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Blackie Whiteford, Greg Whitespear, William Worthington, Frank Yaconelli, Duke York
Director: Chen Kaige
Director: Chen Kaige
Director: Robert Altman
Director: Robert Altman
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot from Columbia Classics 4K Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot from Columbia Classics 4K Blu-ray
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
Director: Carol Reed
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
Director: Carol Reed
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
Director: Luis Buñuel
Radiance's audio is ported from the Criterion DVD, see Blah-ray
Director: Luis Buñuel
Radiance's audio is ported from the Criterion DVD, see Blah-ray
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Kino Lorber Blu-ray with Photoplay 4K restoration
Kino Lorber Blu-ray with Carl Davis score
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Kino Lorber Blu-ray with Photoplay 4K restoration
Kino Lorber Blu-ray with Carl Davis score
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Flicker Alley Blu-ray (encoded by FiM) has much better encoding than Lobster Films Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver caps
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Flicker Alley Blu-ray (encoded by FiM) has much better encoding than Lobster Films Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver caps
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Kino Lorber 4k resto
The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Kino Lorber 4k resto
The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: Howard Deutch
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray, but the compression on the 4K is bad.
Director: Howard Deutch
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray, but the compression on the 4K is bad.
Director: Bryan Gordon
Director: Bryan Gordon
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
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