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Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
John Alban
- Delegate
- (uncredited)
George Anderson
- Miner
- (uncredited)
Carl Andre
- Wagon Train Member
- (uncredited)
Billy Andrews
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Television broadcasts were delayed until 1960 in order to protect Paramount's 1958 theatrical re-release which was still in wide distribution through 1959; its earliest documented telecast took place in Phoenix Friday 11 March 1960 on KVAR (Channel 12). At this time, color broadcasting was in its infancy, limited to only a small number of high rated programs, primarily on NBC and NBC affiliated stations, so these film showings were all still in B&W. Viewers were not offered the opportunity to see these films in their original Technicolor until several years later. It was released on DVD 8 May 2007 as one of 4 titles in Universal's Classic Western Roundup Volume 2, and, since that time, cable TV viewers have been afforded the opportunity of seeing it looking just like new, in glorious Technicolor, on the Western Channel.
- GoofsA number of the pistols used by characters appear to be cartridge revolvers, rather than cap-and-ball.
- Quotes
Booth Pennock: You know, Trumbo, if ever you grow up, you'll learn that a woman is like a poker game. What you take in one hand you drop in the next.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Something to Talk About (1995)
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TECHNICOLOR MISFIRE...CASTING MISSTEPS...AWFUL MUSIC...CLUNKY MONTAGE
The Casting of Barry Fitzgerald as a Dirt Farmer/Politician/Saint.
And George Coulouris as a Former Slave Trader and Devil Incarnate.
Almost Ruin a Sprawling Technicolor Production.
Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck are Stalwart as in On Again-Off Again Romance Trying Desperately to Inject some Suspense and Intrigue in this Hopelessly Overblown Story.
John Farrow's Direction is Pedestrian with Few Flourishes that Make the Movie come to Life as it just Hops Around from One Direction to the Next.
A Huge Disappointment Considering.
The First Act with a Wagon Train that Stampedes as soon as the Word Arrives that Gold was Discovered in the Titled Territory.
The Second Act is a Gambling Hall with Stanwick and Coulouris being Infiltrated as Milland Shows Up.
Then there's Talk about California becoming a State.
The Third Act is Political and an Attempted Empire Building by Coulouris.
Buy this Time the Film has Worn Out its Welcome and Scenes Come and Go with Little Gravitas.
It just Runs its Course to the Predictably Flat Ending.
Worth a Watch with Very Low Expectations.
And George Coulouris as a Former Slave Trader and Devil Incarnate.
Almost Ruin a Sprawling Technicolor Production.
Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck are Stalwart as in On Again-Off Again Romance Trying Desperately to Inject some Suspense and Intrigue in this Hopelessly Overblown Story.
John Farrow's Direction is Pedestrian with Few Flourishes that Make the Movie come to Life as it just Hops Around from One Direction to the Next.
A Huge Disappointment Considering.
The First Act with a Wagon Train that Stampedes as soon as the Word Arrives that Gold was Discovered in the Titled Territory.
The Second Act is a Gambling Hall with Stanwick and Coulouris being Infiltrated as Milland Shows Up.
Then there's Talk about California becoming a State.
The Third Act is Political and an Attempted Empire Building by Coulouris.
Buy this Time the Film has Worn Out its Welcome and Scenes Come and Go with Little Gravitas.
It just Runs its Course to the Predictably Flat Ending.
Worth a Watch with Very Low Expectations.
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- Sep 1, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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