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Western Union (1941) was a Historical - Western Film directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Darryl F. Zanuck.

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Jack Slade: Suppose I don't let you go?
Vance Shaw: Why don't you stop me?


[last lines]
[listening to the clack of the telegraph]
Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
Edward Creighton: It's music.
Sue Creighton: I wish Shaw could hear it.
Edward Creighton: It's a long way from Salt Lake City to Boot Hill in Elkville, but I think he can hear it.


Edward Creighton: Well then, I guess I better see the law about this.
Jack Slade: You'll have to go back to Omaha if you do. It don't run beyond there.
Edward Creighton: I'll make some of my own!


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Originally, Laird Cregar was cast in this film in an undetermined role (possibly that of Doc Murdoch), but was unable to do the film due to an unfinished other project. He was replaced by George 'Gabby' Hayes, but Hayes then became ill and was himself replaced.
Studio publicity noted that Fox contract star Henry Fonda had served as technical adviser on the film, due to his experience as a young man working as a lineman. Fonda's "technical advisory" capacity was most certainly a publicity fiction, and in any event Fonda was not credited on the film itself.
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