In Old California

1942

Action / Drama / Western

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1699 1.7K

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Plot summary

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

Director

William C. McGann Photo
William C. McGann

Top cast

Frank Ellis Photo
Frank Ellis as Wagon Driver
Martin Garralaga Photo
Martin Garralaga as Señor Alvarez
John Wayne Photo
John Wayne as Tom Craig
Frank Hagney Photo
Frank Hagney as Angry Citizen in Lynch Mob
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
808.77 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 1
1.47 GB
1484*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BibChr 7 / 10

Surprisingly good, as long as you're not looking for War and Peace.

In Old California is a fun, surprisingly complex John Wayne vehicle from more positive and principled days. It features a good good guy (gosh, even goes to church! feature that!), a couple of bad bad guys - and even a character that transforms from shady to admirable.It's a move that takes one's attention, keeps it, and sends one off feeling good. If that's your idea of a good movie experience, give it a go.
Reviewed by rhoda-9 7 / 10

Uneven but endearing comedy Western

The script of this Republic cheapo may be uneven (episodic and repetitious), and the casting too (Binnie Barnes looks every bit of her 40 years, and Edgar Kennedy is the very poor man's Walter Brennan), but it is always engaging, and frequently endearing. Wayne gets a chance to show his way with gentle humour as the soft-spoken, milk-drinking druggist who smiles at insults, then shows the nasty men a little trick--he can bend a coin in half--that makes them skedaddle. Though unfortunately matched with Kennedy, Patsy Kelly, the wisecracking New York comedian, shows a timing as neat as Wayne's with his trigger finger (as in all these sort of mild-hero Westerns, he is a dead shot).The comedy occasionally turns, none too smoothly, into serious, even grave, matters, with a death by poisoning, a typhoid epidemic among the gold, and the depiction of how the villains seek to profit not simply by shooting but by selling overpriced and tainted medicine. But if the film is not terribly compelling it is always enjoyable, and is not lacking in surprises, especially from the female players. All in all, though this movie suffers from the lack of money and quality control that a major studio would have provided, it also has an easygoing charm often missing from bigger and slicker films.
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