Sutter's Gold | |
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Directed by | James Cruze |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle |
Starring |
Edward Arnold Lee Tracy Binnie Barnes |
Music by | Franz Waxman |
Cinematography | George Robinson |
Edited by | Philip Cahn |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Sutter's Gold is a 1936 fictionalized film 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 is based on the novel "L'Or; la merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter" by Blaise Cendrars (Paris, 1925); .