A stellar cast - George Brent, Olivia deHavilland, Claude Rains. Sydney Toler. it's now the 1870s. better gold mining processes. so much water. now the farmers are getting flooded out. and they sue the mining companies. apparently based on a real court case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining, according to the trivia section! Jared (Brent) meets the Ferris family... Rains is the old fashioned dad, deHavilland and Holt are brother and sister. everyone is going into large scale, hydraulic gold mining, but pop Ferris is determined to farm wheat the old way. and to fight miners the legal way. In the courts. and to make things worse, daughter Serena has fallen in love with one of those cursed miners. keep an eye out for Harry Davenport as Doc Parsons. he was the kindly old doctor or grandfather in so many films. story just simmers and bubbles. never really reaches a boil. Directed by Michael Curtiz. won the oscar for casablanca four years later. he made SO many great films. this one filmed WAAAY north of sacramento. it's average.
Review of Gold Is Where You Find It
