Jack Elam is a Actor American born on 13 november 1920 at Miami (USA)
Jack Elam
Jack Elam participated to
97 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
1 have good markets following the box office.
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Actor
, 1h54
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Action,
WesternThemes Political filmsActors John Wayne,
Jennifer O'Neill,
Jorge Rivero,
Jack Elam,
Christopher Mitchum,
Victor FrenchRoles Phillips
Rating66%
The film opens during the American Civil War. Col. Cord McNally (John Wayne) has instructions telegraphed to his close friend, Lt. Ned Forsythe (Peter Jason), in charge of the Union troops on a Union army payroll train. However, Confederates led by Capt. Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum) hijack the train. They have an elegant plan of listening in on the telegraph wires, greasing the tracks to stop the train, disconnecting the payroll wagon from the engine so it would roll back down the hill, using a hornet's nest to force the Union guards to jump off the train, then catching the train with many ropes tied to trees. In the process, Lt. Forsythe is fatally injured.