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Gold Is Where You Find It

Ruthlessly...they tore down mountains, ruined land, wrecked lives! Eternally...their mighty story will stand ...the miracle of the screen!
Feb 12, 1938 · 1h 34m
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Drama
Romance
Western

PLOT

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.

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CAST

George Brent
Jared Whitney
Olivia de Havilland
Serena Ferris
Claude Rains
Colonel Ferris
Margaret Lindsay
Rosanne
John Litel
Ralph Ferris
Marcia Ralston
Molly Featherstone
Barton MacLane
Slag Martin
Tim Holt
Lance Ferris
Directed by Michael Curtiz

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Country
US

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