Movies and TvShows featuring "government-mail-contract" theme.
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
shiptall shipsteamshipbrother brother rivalryfather daughter relationshipyear 1837ship engineerbrawlemigrantuncle niece relationshipformal ballship ownerprologueliverpool, englandbritainprivateershanghaied crewcrossing the atlanticbusiness mergershipwreck survivorgovernment mail contractcoalatlantic oceanpaddle wheelepilogueyear 19381830s1840sliverpoolcontractboston, massachusettsshipyardshipwreckshipbuildingsailing shippartnershiplloyds of londongreat britainglasgow, scotlandfogfinancial crisismarriage engagementromantic rivalry
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