Color Of A Brisk And Leaping Day

Exquisite black-and-white landscapes of the American West hearken back to 19th-century photographs by Timothy O’Sullivan, a government photographer sent to capture images of uncharted territory in advance of the transcontinental railroad. Writer-director Christopher Münch’s enthusiasm for the bygone locomotive era echoes in every frame of this tender story on the demise of the railroad as the highway breaks into the Yosemite mountain region following WWII. John Lee (Peter Alexander III), a half-Chinese, half-French trolley repairman from Pasadena, is determined to preserve the "Iron Horse" legacy his immigrant grandfather labored to create. He secures a silent financ...