Gold Is Where You Find It
1938 · 94 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 626 VOTES · DIR. Michael Curtiz
Overview
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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00:01:03 A NATION POURS WEST IN A MAD FLOOD.
00:06:22 AND I WANT IT QUICK.
00:10:01 YOU KNOW, THEY GENERALLY TAKE THEM AS THEY COME
00:12:42 THEY'RE CALLED PIRATES IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:16:30 MY, MY.
00:20:58 LOOK AT YOUR HANDS. THEY'RE LIKE WHIP LEATHER.
00:23:42 IF YOU THINK SO
00:26:41 THIS IS THE FINEST FRUIT-GROWING SOIL I EVER SAW.
00:30:19 RECKON WE'RE ALL DOING A LOT OF THINKING THESE DAYS.
00:34:26 AND GENE?
00:37:53 FOR OURSELVES AND OUR CHILDREN -
00:41:27 BETWEEN YOURSELF AND MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY.
00:45:19 OFF THAN SHE IS -
00:47:37 BEST LAWYER WEST OF THE ROCKIES.
00:50:07 I NEVER DID HAVE MUCH LUCK GETTING HIM TO TALK.
00:55:12 WHAT? - WITH LANCE AND - MOY, YOU MAY GO.
00:58:05 I WANTED TO SEE YOU.
01:02:21 GOOD EVENING. I MUST SEE MR. FERRIS.
01:05:14 WHAT'S THE MATTER?
01:08:13 TO THEM, THIS INJUNCTION WE'RE ASKING FOR
01:12:23 HYDRAULICKING'S BEEN JUDGED A PUBLIC NUISANCE.
01:15:13 AS A RULE IT'S EASY.
01:22:05 AND NOW FATHER AND THE OTHERS ARE GOING. NO. THEY CAN'T.
01:26:52 GET TO THE BARRICADE! I GOT TO MAKE SURE I GOT HIM!