Western Union

Western Union (1941) is a Fritz Lang Western you can watch online on iFILM. Starring Randolph Scott and Robert Young, it follows the 1860s push to string a telegraph line across the frontier — from Omaha to Salt Lake City.

Reformed outlaw Vance Shaw saves expedition leader Edward Creighton in the desert and signs on as his scout. When cattle start disappearing from camp, everyone blames the Natives. Vance knows better: the raiders are his old gang, wearing war paint and Confederate colors as cover for plain robbery. The German director who built Metropolis and M brought his eye for trapped men and impossible choices straight into the Western — and the moral knot at the film's center is pure Lang. Stream Western Union (1941) in good quality on iFILM.