Overland Pacific

Overland Pacific

Hard-as-spikes men and soft-as-silk women ... they ran into towering canyons and Comanche terror when they ran the railroad to the Gold Coast.

NR 1954 · 73 min · ★ 5.6 · Western

A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.

Directed by Fred F. Sears · Written by Frederick Louis Fox

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