Jul 4th  
The Iron Horse**    
(US 1924)       
Fox. 150m. bw. silent

Struggles of Union Pacific to build the first Transcontinental railroad linking with Central Pacific, encountering conflicts with Red Indians and landowners.
Early breakthrough Ford melodrama. long and heavy going by today's standards, but also with his growing sense of scenic composition, impish Irish humour and an eventual epic climax.

Written by: Charles Kenyon, John Russell, Charles Darnton.
Producer/Director: John Ford.
Starring: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Cyril Chadwick, Francis Powers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Fred Kohler, Will Walling, Charles Edward Bull (as Abraham Lincoln), George Waggner (as Buffalo Bill), James A. Marcus.
Photography: George Schneiderman.

Music: Christopher Callendo (2007).