In Old California

Watch Movie

In Old California

"Torn from the pages of America's most reckless era-THE UNFORGETTABLE GOLD RUSH DAYS!"

1942

1h 31m

5.1(33 votes)

Action

Romance

Western

Overview

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

Where to Watch

Rent

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

106 members

Acting

John Wayne

Tom Craig

Acting

Binnie Barnes

Lacey Miller

Acting

Albert Dekker

Britt Dawson

Acting

Helen Parrish

Ellen Sanford

Acting

Patsy Kelly

Helga

Acting

Edgar Kennedy

Kegs McKeever

Acting

Dick Purcell

Joe Dawson

Acting

Harry Shannon

Mr. Carlin

Acting

Charles Halton

Mr. Hayes

Acting

Emmett Lynn

Whitey

Acting

Robert McKenzie

Mr. Bates (as Bob McKenzie)

Acting

Milton Kibbee

Ezra Tompkins

Acting

Paul Sutton

Chick - Dawson's henchman

Acting

Anne O'Neal

Mrs. Tompkins

No Image

Acting

Richard Alexander

Clem - Dawson's Henchman (uncredited)

Acting

Jessie Arnold

Worried Woman

Acting

Hooper Atchley

Higgins

Acting

Sam Bernard

Miner

No Image

Acting

Stanley Blystone

San Francisco Deputy

Acting

Rudy Bowman

Townsman

Acting

Ed Brady

Angry Citizen in Lynch Mob

Acting

Frank Brownlee

Man on Street

Acting

Roy Bucko

Henchman

No Image

Acting

Nora Bush

Townswoman

No Image

Acting

Zeke Canova

Miner

No Image

Acting

Horace B. Carpenter

Townsman

Acting

Lynne Carver

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Chester Conklin

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Jim Corey

Shorty

Acting

Wade Crosby

San Francisco Bartender

Acting

Donald Curtis

Pike - Dawson's Henchman

Acting

Russell Custer

Townsman (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Rube Dalroy

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Art Dillard

Henchman (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Tex Driscoll

Townsman

Acting

Pearl Early

Mrs. Bates

No Image

Acting

Heenan Elliott

Man with Joker at Bar

No Image

Acting

Frank Ellis

Wagon Driver

Acting

Fern Emmett

Mrs. Coggins

Acting

Esther Estrella

Maria Alvarez

Acting

Jim Farley

Angry Citizen in Lynch Mob

Acting

Martin Faust

Miner

Acting

O.K. Ford

Singing Churchman

No Image

Acting

Martín Garralaga

Señor Alvarez

Acting

H.W. Gim

Townsman

Acting

Augie Gomez

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Dorothy Granger

Girl in First Saloon

Acting

Karl Hackett

Charlie - Wagon Owner

Acting

Frank Hagney

Angry Citizen in Lynch Mob (uncredited)

Acting

Bobby Hale

Townsman (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Al Haskell

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Chick Hannan

Henchman

No Image

Acting

Robert Homans

Marshal Alvin Thompson

Acting

Olin Howland

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Frank Jaquet

Dr. Glaggett

No Image

Acting

Lew Kelly

Forty-Niner

Acting

Jack Kirk

Wagon Driver on Run

Acting

Emily LaRue

Rosita Alvarez

No Image

Acting

Rex Lease

Gold Strike Rider

Acting

George Lloyd

San Francisco Sheriff

Acting

Jack Low

Bartender

No Image

Acting

Eric Mayne

Townsman

Acting

Merrill McCormick

Dawson's Henchman

No Image

Acting

Mathew McCue

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Joe McGuinn

Deputy

Acting

Harry McKim

Boy at Wharf

No Image

Acting

Robert Milasch

Townsman

Acting

Carl Miller

Saloon Patron

Acting

Frank Mills

Loudmouthed Oaf (uncredited)

Acting

Art Mix

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Jack Montgomery

Henchman

No Image

Acting

Mike Morelli

Townsman

No Image

Acting

James C. Morton

Red - Sacramento Bartender

Acting

Charles Murphy

Saloon Patron

Acting

Bill Nestell

Townsman

Acting

Frank O'Connor

Bystander on Riverboat

Acting

Jack O'Shea

Saloon Patron

Acting

Bud Osborne

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Jack Perry

Townsman

Acting

Pascale Perry

Henchman

No Image

Acting

Ralph Peters

Undetermined Minor Role

Acting

Benny Petti

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Tex Phelps

Townsman

Acting

Rose Plumer

Townswoman

No Image

Acting

José Portugal

Jose

No Image

Acting

Jessie Proctor

Townswoman

No Image

Acting

Tom Quinn

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Bob Reeves

Townsman

Acting

Ruth Robinson

Mrs. Higgins

No Image

Acting

Tom Smith

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Forrest Taylor

Man in Saloon with Carlin

Acting

Harry Tenbrook

Saloon Waiter

Acting

Harry Tyler

Huckster

Acting

Minerva Urecal

Mrs. Carson

Acting

Guy Usher

Captain of First Boat

Acting

Max Waizmann

Bystander

No Image

Acting

Fred Walburn

Archie Higgins

No Image

Acting

Glen Walters

Woman at Camp

No Image

Acting

Cecil Weston

Mrs. Marvin

No Image

Acting

Slim Whitaker

Man on Street

Acting

Blackie Whiteford

Townsman

Acting

Matt Willis

Joker at Bar in San Francisco

Acting

Roque Ybarra

Townsman

No Image

Acting

Michael Miller

Yerp Bates

Acting

Jack Carr

Man Who Warns of Kegs' Arrival

No Image

Similar Movies

6.2

2007

Shall We Kiss?

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.

Movie

6.5

1960

North to Alaska

After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.

Movie

6.9

1954

The Far Country

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.

Movie

5.7

1944

Nevada

Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge has his man Powell kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.

Movie

1936

Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Movie

8.0

1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

Movie

4.2

1968

Trail of the Falcon

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.

Movie

6.2

2007

Sukiyaki Western Django

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

Movie

6.5

1967

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!

Movie

5.7

1954

The Forty-Niners

1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers.

Movie

4.1

1969

Shark

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

Movie

5.0

1974

Kit & Co.

The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th century.

Movie

6.8

2018

The Sisters Brothers

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

Movie

6.7

1954

River of No Return

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Movie

5.8

1978

Goin' South

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

Movie

6.9

1952

Bend of the River

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Movie

5.1

1944

Can't Help Singing

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.

Movie

7.0

1998

Niagara, Niagara

An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.

Movie

6.0

1962

The Firebrand

A Mexican outlaw begins a one-man war against corrupt California Rangers who are harassing Hispanic locals during the California Gold Rush.

Movie

6.5

2009

The Ugly Truth

A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

Movie

Recommended Movies

5.9

1975

Royal Flash

Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.

Movie

5.6

1947

Gunfighters

Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.

Movie

6.0

1989

John Wayne Standing Tall

Profile of one of the world's most popular motion picture stars, told through interviews with some of the artists who worked with him, family, friends, and excerpts from many of his films and television appearances.

Movie

6.1

2012

LOL

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

Movie

6.2

2024

Apartment 7A

A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

Movie

6.5

2021

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Movie

5.6

1983

The Keep

Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

Movie

8.0

1978

Autumn Sonata

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Movie

6.2

2000

State and Main

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

Movie

7.9

2024

The Greatest Night in Pop

On a January night in 1985, music's biggest stars gathered to record "We Are the World." This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic event.

Movie

5.2

2018

We Need Your Vote

Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.

Movie

6.0

2023

Something Is About to Happen

After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver.

Movie

7.3

1998

My Name Is Joe

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

Movie

7.8

1985

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Movie

7.1

2002

Distant

A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.

Movie

7.2

2020

Dear Comrades!

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

Movie

6.3

2006

Cold Prey

When one of them breaks a leg, five friends snowboarding in the Norwegian mountains take shelter in an abandoned ski lodge and soon realize they’re not alone.

Movie

6.0

2021

The Guest Room

The morning Stella decides to take her own life, a stranger knocks at her door claiming the guest room he booked for the night. Surprised but charmed by this man who seems to know her very well, Stella decides to let him in. But when Sandro, the man who broke Stella's heart, joins them at home, this odd situation turns immediately into chaos.

Movie

5.8

1986

Chopping Mall

High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for the Park Plaza Mall. When a jolting bolt of lightning short-circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into "killbots" on the loose after unsuspecting shoppers!

Movie

7.4

1960

Black Sunday

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

Movie