Silent Western film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Bad_Men" class="extiw" title="w:3 Bad Men">3 Bad Men</a></i> (1926). 
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.
John Ford
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