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Release year: 1938

Storyline

Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming. Farmers and miners clash during the California Gold Rush.

Top credits

Directors

Michael Curtiz

Writers

Cast

George Brent — Jared Whitney
Olivia de Havilland — Serena Ferris
Claude Rains — Colonel Ferris
Margaret Lindsay — Rosanne

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Did you know

• Second three-strip Technicolor feature film made at Warner Bros. The first was God's Country and the Woman (1937). The next would become much better known, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

• The landmark lawsuit relating to this film is Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co. in 1882. It was settled in 1884 in favor of the farmers and severely curtailed hydraulic mining in California.

• (at around 5 mins) Jared Whitney (George Brent) signs the hotel register, the closeup of the register page shows that the names immediately above Whitney's are "Mr. & Mrs. Donald Siegel, Sonora Cal". Don Siegel, later to gain fame as director of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Dirty Harry (1971) and for mentoring a budding director named Clint Eastwood, was in charge of the second unit that made such insert shots for Warner Bros. movies in the late 1930s.