California's Golden Beginning (1948)
A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
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