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California

Mighty drama of men who were titans...and a woman who was their match!

6.8(23)19471h 37m2

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.

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Language
English
  • california
  • wagon train

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John Farrow

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR21 Feb 1947

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California was released on 21 February 1947.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/5/2023

    6/10

    I always thought Barbara Stanwyck had the measure of any of the men she co-starred with in westerns, and here she certainly holds her own as the manipulative "Lily". She joins a wagon train heading west, but the gold rush rumours split that up and so she proceeds to the coast where she quickly ends up owning quite a lucrative saloon. She's pretty much sharing control of the town with the odious storekeeper/daylight r…

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