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Union Station is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rudolph Maté released in USA on 4 october 1950 with William Holden
Union Station (1950)
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Add to a movie listUnion Station is a 1950 Film Noir crime drama, directed by Rudolph Maté. The drama features William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, and Nancy Olson, among others.
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In this police thriller that partly takes place in Chicago Union Station (though filmed instead at Los Angeles Union Station), a railroad policeman, William Calhoun, is approached at work by an apprehensive passenger named Joyce Willecombe (Nancy Olson) who believes that two travelers aboard her train may have been up to no good.Actors
William Holden
(Lt. William Calhoun)
Nancy Olson
(Joyce Willecombe)
Barry Fitzgerald
(Inspector Donnelly)
Lyle Bettger
(Joe Beacom)
Jan Sterling
(Marge Wrighter)
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