Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Ruthlessly...they tore down mountains, ruined land, wrecked lives! Eternally...their mighty story will stand ...the miracle of the screen!
94 min
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.
- Release date
- February 12, 1938
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Max Steiner
Trailer
Cast
- George Brent as Jared Whitney
- Olivia de Havilland as Serena Ferris
- Claude Rains as Colonel Ferris
- Margaret Lindsay as Rosanne
- John Litel as Ralph Edward Ferris
- Marcia Ralston as Molly Featherstone
- Barton MacLane as Slag Martin
- Tim Holt as Lance Ferris
- Sidney Toler as Harrison McCooey
- Henry O'Neill as Judge
Crew
- Michael Curtiz · Director
- Warren Duff · Writer
- Robert Buckner · Writer
- Clements Ripley · Writer
- Max Steiner · Composer
- Sol Polito · Cinematographer
- Clarence Kolster · Editor