Kansas Pacific

From the opening credits, Barton MacLane as railroad man Bruce, Harry Shannon the crusty engineer "Smokestack," Douglas Fowley with the gun among the Confederate-backed vandals, in Kansas Pacific, 1953, starring Sterling Hayden.

Kansas, 1860, Sterling Hayden as undercover U.S. Army officer Nelson has just arrived to oversee railroad construction when he meets Reed Hadley as Quantrill (About twice the age the historic figure lived to become), who in fact is an agent for the incipient Confederacy, joining in fisticuffs as civic duty, his new associate Barton MacLane arriving, Harry Shannon, Eve Miller and Irving Bacon in support, in Allied Artists’ Kansas Pacific, 1953.

Engineer Nelson (Sterling Hayden), posing as a civilian, though we know he’s an under-cover Union officer, visits with Barbara (Eve Miller) before busting Southern sympathizers looking to sabotage his rail crew, her dad (Barton MacLane) and pal (Harry Shannon) impressed, in Kansas Pacific, 1953.