Jednu nominaci na Oscara získal tento film s westernovou tématikou. Byl natočen v roce 1939 Cecilem .B.DeMillem. Začíná v období, kdy bylo zapotřebí konečně postavit velkou americkou transkontinentální železnici, která by zabezpečovala nejen přesun osob, materiálu, ale i poštu. A zajistila tak pohodlnější a rychlejší odvoz lidí a zásob.
Réžia: Cecil B. DeMille
Scénar: Jesse Lasky Jr., Walter DeLeon, Jack Cunningham
Produkcia: Cecil B. DeMille
Hrajú: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Robert Barrat, Anthony Quinn, Henry Kolker, Francis McDonald, Willard Robertson, Evelyn Keyes, Richard Lane, Regis Toomey, Fuzzy Knight, Harry Woods, Lon Chaney Jr., Joseph Crehan, May Beatty, Elmo Lincoln, Richard Denning, Will Geer, Ward Bond, Louis Natheaux, John Power, Iron Eyes Cody, Maude Fealy, Richard Alexander, Ernie Adams, Walter Long, Lane Chandler, Emory Parnell, Byron Foulger, Russell Hicks, Don Beddoe, Joe Sawyer, Stanley Ridges, James Flavin, Monte Blue, Sam McDaniel, Nestor Paiva, Frank Yaconelli, Bert Stevens, Frank Mills, Chuck Hamilton, William Worthington, Sam Ash, Robert Homans, Adrian Morris, Stanley Andrews, Buddy Roosevelt, Syd Saylor, Ethan Laidlaw, Jack Pennick, George Magrill, Wilbur Mack, William Haade, Cyril Ring, Selmer Jackson, Chief Thundercloud, Hal Price, Edward Keane, Edward Hearn, Edward LeSaint, John Harmon, Russ Powell, Jimmie Dundee, Sidney D'Albrook, Blackie Whiteford, Edward Peil Sr., Harold Goodwin, J. C. Fowler, Nora Cecil, Bob Kortman, Charles McAvoy, Morgan Wallace, George Regas, J.M. Kerrigan, Dick Rush, David Newell, Noble Johnson, Si Jenks, Charles Stevens, Ed Brady, George Burton, Wheaton Chambers, Eddie Fetherson, Horace Murphy, Nick Thompson, Guy Usher, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Mary MacLaren, Tex Driscoll, Francis Sayles, Frank Lackteen, David Clyde, David Thursby, Pat Hartigan, Frank Shannon, Dick Botiller, Steve Carruthers, Ruth Warren, Jim Farley, Davison Clark, John Merton, Max Davidson, Charles McMurphy, Paul Everton, Robert R. Stephenson, Kenneth Gibson, Tony Urchel, Archie Twitchell, Mala, Margaret Roach, Mitchell Ingraham, James Pierce