Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

In old California / a Republic production ; Republic Pictures presents ; directed by William McGann ; screen play, Gertrude Purcell, Frances Hyland.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

John Wayne plays Tom Craig, an ambitious pharmacist who moves into a brawling frontier town in the gold-rush days of California. He soon locks horns with the local crime lord, Britt Dawson, who has become wealthy from forced tributes levied on the townspeople. Irate and incensed, Tom trades his pestle for a pistol and leads the settlers in a revolt against the corrupt gunmen and their unfair taxes.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Pharmacists -- California -- Sacramento -- Drama.

Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Drama.

Organized crime -- California -- Drama.

Gold miners -- California -- Sacramento -- Drama.

California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Drama.

Genre:

Western films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

McGann, William, 1893-1977.

Purcell, Gertrude.

Hyland, Frances.

Wayne, John, 1907-1979.

Barnes, Binnie, 1903-1998.

Dekker, Albert, 1905-1968.

Kelly, Patsy, 1910-1981.

Republic Pictures Corporation.

Olive Films.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.

Associate producer, Robert North; original story, J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater; photography, Jack Marta; music, David Buttolph; editor, Howard O'Neill.

John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Patsy Kelly, Helen Parrish, Edgar Kennedy.

DVD; NTSC; region 1, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; mono.

ISBN:

9786315052750 : DVD

6315052754 : DVD

Publisher Number:

OF651

Other Number:

849536325

System Availability:

1

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