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Winners of the West is a american film of genre Action directed by Ray Taylor released in USA on 2 july 1940 with Dick Foran
Winners of the West (1940)
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Add to a movie listWinners of the West is a 1940 Universal movie serial. It stars Dick Foran and Anne Nagel in a plot about the construction of a railroad and a local ganglord who opposes it. This was Universal's 115th serial release (the 47th with sound).
The studio had used the name for an earlier silent serial but there are no plot similarities between the two versions. Columbia's Roar of the Iron Horse is very similar to this serial, however, and the writer George H. Plympton worked on both.
Synopsis
The Hartford Transcontinental Railroad is attempting to build a railroad through "Hell's Gate Pass". However, King Carter, the self-appointed ruler of the land beyod the pass, does not want this to happen. He sends henchmen, including local Indians, to disrupt the construction anyway they can, from sabotage to kidnapping Claire Hartford, the daughter of the company President. The President's assistant, Jeff Ramsay, and his sidekicks, stop King Carter's schemes at every point and eventually defeat him entirely. This opens the area up to new settlers, the first of which is Jeff himself and his new wife Claire.Actors
Dick Foran
(Jeff Ramsay)
Anne Nagel
(Claire Hartford)
James Craig
(Jim Jackson)
Harry Woods
(King Carter)
Charles Stevens
(Snakeye, King Carter's lead henchman)
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