Thesps riding the rails.(Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill to star in Mainland Productions' miniseries "Iron Road")(Brief article)

From: Daily Variety | Date: April 16, 2007| Author: Thomas, Archie | Copyright information

Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill will star in "Iron Road," an $18 million television miniseries about the building of the North American transcontinental railroad.

The romantic action-adventure sees a poor Chinese girl who is working on the railroads become romantically entwined with the son of a U.S. railroad tycoon.

"Iron Road" is produced by Mainl...

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