In the days of the gold rush, happy-go-lucky mine owner Joel McCrea rides into San Francisco for a little fun and ends up tangling with snooty big-wig Sidney Blackmer and his seductive mistress (?) Yvonne DeCarlo, who seek to control the whole state of California through bribery and intimidation.
The two leads have good chemistry. McCrea gives a pretty smooth performance and DeCarlo is very beautiful. There's a lot of good dialog and a decent pace.
One interesting sequence has McCrea getting shanghaied and thrown below the deck of an outgoing ship. Fighting his way off the boat, he's pulled out of the water by none other than Plan 9 From Outer Space's Tor Johnson! Overall, this was a fairly decent production with good costumes and sets, that plays like an episode of a TV series. Warner Brothers should have sprung for some Technicolor though.
One thing that I didn't like was the final scene's contention that a pretty and young villain, who's up to her neck in corruption and intimidation, should be absolved of all liability due to what - her beauty and the fact that she fell in love with the hero?!
The two leads have good chemistry. McCrea gives a pretty smooth performance and DeCarlo is very beautiful. There's a lot of good dialog and a decent pace.
One interesting sequence has McCrea getting shanghaied and thrown below the deck of an outgoing ship. Fighting his way off the boat, he's pulled out of the water by none other than Plan 9 From Outer Space's Tor Johnson! Overall, this was a fairly decent production with good costumes and sets, that plays like an episode of a TV series. Warner Brothers should have sprung for some Technicolor though.
One thing that I didn't like was the final scene's contention that a pretty and young villain, who's up to her neck in corruption and intimidation, should be absolved of all liability due to what - her beauty and the fact that she fell in love with the hero?!