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Gold Is Where You Find It

Gold Is Where You Find It

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 12, 1938

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Drama, Romance, Western

User Score

69%

Original Title

Gold Is Where You Find It

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

Michael Curtiz

Description

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.