The Iron Horse (1924) | Directed by John Ford - Full Movie

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.

The Iron Horse is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and produced by Fox Film. 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.

Directed by: John Ford (uncredited)
Written by: Charles Kenyon, John Russell, Charles Darnton
Produced by: John Ford
Starring: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy
Cinematography: George Schneiderman
Edited by: Hettie Gray Baker
Music by: Ernö Rapée (uncredited)
Distributed by: Fox Film Corporation
Release date: August 28, 1924
Running time: 150 minutes (US version), 133 minutes (International version)
Country: United States
Language: Silent (English intertitles)
Budget: $280,000
Box office: $2,000,000