Sentences with phrase «railroad tycoon in»

Nineteenth - century Sicilian immigrant vineyard owners struggle to keep their land from the hands of a ruthless railroad tycoon in northern California.

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American business and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt established his namesake university in 1873.

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a retired railroad tycoon who's interested in buying the Cannonball.

But the script feels the need to cram in the obviously scheming railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), corrupt cavalry officer Fuller (Barry Pepper), and a perfunctory love story between Dan's widow, Rebecca (Ruth Wilson) and John.

10:30 pm — TCM — Once Upon a Time in the West A disparate group of characters interact and intertwine on America's western frontier — a young widow seeking those who killed her family, the outlaw suspected (but innocent) of the murders, the ruthless leader of a gang in the employ of a railroad tycoon, and a harmonica - playing stranger.

But then, that's all in keeping with the surprisingly silly tone of the movie, which is built around a greedy railroad tycoon's dastardly plot to enrich himself — what Western would be complete without a greedy railroad tycoon, after all?

«Harmonica» and Cheyenne look out for the prostitute - turned - widow and discover the motive for Frank and his boss, crippled railroad tycoon Mr. Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), to off the McBains in an effort to claim the family's property, secretly and soon to become extremely valuable.

Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against «the Colonel,» a thrill - seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexico - its government being squeezed on one end by Villa's revolutionaries and on the other by «filthy» American capitalists.

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Railroad modern tycoon strategy game created by solely Jan Zelený in 7 years.

Transport Fever by Urban Games is a transportation focused tycoon simulator that tasks you with building bus stations, railroads, and airports in an attempt to increase the transit of people and goods.

Great Falls was founded in 1883 by Paris Gibson and railroad tycoon James J. Hill.