| 词条 | The Iron Horse (film) |
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| name = The Iron Horse | image = Iron Horse Poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = John Ford (uncredited) | producer = John Ford | writer = Charles Kenyon John Russell Charles Darnton | narrator = | starring = George O'Brien Madge Bellamy | music = Ernö Rapée (uncredited) | cinematography = George Schneiderman | editing = Hettie Gray Baker | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{film date|1924|8|28}} | runtime = 150 minutes (US version) 133 minutes (International version) | country = United States | language = Silent film English intertitles | budget = $280,000 | gross = $2,000,000 }} The Iron Horse is a 1924 American Western silent film directed by John Ford and produced by Fox Film.[1] It was a major milestone in Ford's career, and his lifelong connection to the western movie genre. It was Ford's first major film, in part because the hastily planned production went over budget, as Fox was making a hurried response to the success of another studio's western. In 2011, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. PlotThe film is about the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It depicts Irish, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, as well as African Americans, as the men who did the backbreaking work that made this feat possible. The primary villain is an unscruplous businessman who masquerades as a renegade Commanche. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. There is a note in the title before this scene that the two original locomotives from the 1869 event are used in the film, although this is false - both engines (Union Pacific No. 119 and Jupiter) were scrapped before 1910. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. Cast
LegacyIn December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.[2] In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns."[2] Among the extras used in the Central Pacific sequences were several Chinese men playing coolies who worked on the railroad. They were in fact retired Central Pacific Railroad employees who had helped build the first transcontinental railroad through the Sierras, who came out to participate in the filming as a lark.[3] The film is recognized by American Film Institute in the following list:
Home mediaThe film was released on DVD in America in its full-length US version (accompanied by the truncated UK version). A 2011 release of The Iron Horse on DVD in the UK included both the US and International/UK versions of the picture, and a half-hour video-essay about the film by author and critic Tag Gallagher. The 'international' version includes some variant shots and uses different names for some supporting characters; it also carries a dedication to the British railway engineer George Stephenson.[5] Near the end of the film, it is stated that the actual "Jupiter" and "UP 116" were used in the scene. Besides incorrectly identifying the "UP 119" as the "UP 116", both engines had been scrapped 21 and 15 years earlier. Of interest, however, what appears to be the Central Pacific's "C.P. Huntington", now on display in Sacramento, California, is being manhandled up a steep grade on a sledge made of logs. NovelizationStarting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). The author was Edwin C. Hill, then a journalist, who would become a prominent radio broadcaster, best remembered for a show called The Human Side of the News. See also
References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/I/IronHorse1924.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Iron Horse |accessdate=2008-03-01|work=Silent Era}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11-240.html|title=2011 National Film Registry More Than a Box of Chocolates|work=Library of Congress|date=December 28, 2011|accessdate=December 29, 2011}} 3. ^Brownlow, Kevin. Episode "Out West," Hollywood: A Celebration of American Silent Cinema (Thames Television), 1980 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781|title=AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees|format=PDF|date=|accessdate=2016-08-19|deadurl= yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716071937/http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781|archivedate=2011-07-16|df=}} 5. ^The Iron Horse: 2011 DVD edition, The Masters of Cinema Series. External links
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