California

1947
PG
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.2K

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Anthony Quinn, Ray Milland, and Barbara Stanwyck in California (1947)

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Classical Western Western

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.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

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Featured review

6/10

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.

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Trivia
This film was in production November 1945-February 1946, and bears a 1946 copyright statement, and was released in January 1947.

Goofs
A number of the pistols used by characters appear to be cartridge revolvers, rather than cap-and-ball.

Quotes
Lily Bishop: You may think you're pretty high and mighty, Trumbo. But let me tell you this... if I live long enough, and I will, I'm going to pull you down off that fancy horse of yours and shove your face in the muck - so help me!