Sutter's Gold (1936)
Men lived for it! Men killed for it!
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
- Date of release
- 1936-03-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- James Cruze
Casting
- Edward Arnold — Johan (John) Sutter
- Lee Tracy — Pete Perkin
- Binnie Barnes — Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski
- Katharine Alexander — Anna Sutter
- Montagu Love — Capt. Kettleson
- Addison Richards — James Marshall
- John Miljan — Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
- Harry Carey — Kit Carson
- William Janney — John Sutter Jr.
- Nan Grey — Ann Eliza Sutter
- Robert Warwick — Gen. Alexander Rotscheff
- Morgan Wallace — General Fremont
Interesting facts
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.
Production and aftermath
Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pictures, was a fan of action westerns and he wanted to make a big outdoor spectacle, along the lines of the well remembered silent epic The Covered Wagon (1923). Laemmle hired that film's director, James Cruze, for the new film Sutter's Gold. The studio assembled a "name" cast of popular character players including Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Harry Carey, and Binnie Barnes.
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