Sutter's Gold
Appearance
Sutter's Gold | |
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Directed by | James Cruze |
Screenplay by | William Faulkner |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle |
Starring | Edward Arnold Lee Tracy Binnie Barnes |
Cinematography | George Robinson |
Edited by | Philip Cahn |
Music by | Franz Waxman |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $730,571[1] |
Sutter's Gold is a 1936 fictionalized film 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
- Edward Arnold as John Sutter
- Lee Tracyas Pete Perkin
- Binnie Barnes as Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski
- Katharine Alexander as Anna Sutter
- Montagu Love asCapt. Kettleson
- Addison Richards as James Marshall
- John Miljan as Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
- Harry Carey as Kit Carson
- William Janney as John Sutter, Jr.
- Nan Grey as Ann Eliza Sutter
- Robert Warwick as Gen. Alexander Rotscheff
- Morgan Wallace as General Fremont
- Allen Vincent as Juan Bautista Alvarado, Jr.
- Mitchell Lewis as King Kamehameha
References
- ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 100. ISBN 9780813158891.
External links
Categories:
- 1936 films
- Universal Pictures films
- Films directed by James Cruze
- American historical films
- American films
- 1936 Western (genre) films
- 1930s historical films
- Films set in the 1840s
- American Western (genre) films
- Films scored by Franz Waxman
- American black-and-white films
- Films set in California
- Cultural depictions of Kit Carson
- 1930s Western (genre) film stubs