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Sutter's Gold

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Sutter's Gold
Directed byJames Cruze
Screenplay byWilliam Faulkner
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringEdward Arnold
Lee Tracy
Binnie Barnes
CinematographyGeorge Robinson
Edited byPhilip Cahn
Music byFranz Waxman
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 1, 1936 (1936-03-01)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$730,571[1]

Sutter's Gold is a 1936 American Western film. It is a fictionalized version of the aftermath of the discovery of gold on Sutter's property, spurring the California Gold Rush of 1849. Edward Arnold plays John Sutter. The supporting cast includes Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katherine Alexander, Montagu Love, and Harry Carey as Kit Carson. The film was directed by James Cruze.

The film is based on the novel "L'Or; la merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter" by Blaise Cendrars (Paris, 1925); ISBN 1417910755, and a play by Bruno Frank.

Cast

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References

  1. ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 100. ISBN 9780813158891.