"GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4

"GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT"

SPECTACULAR PHOTODRAMA IN TECHNICOLOUR

‘Shall California belong the wheatgrowers. who bring food-crops from the soil each year, or to the hydraulic miners, whose terrific streams of water tear away the hillsides and ruin the adjacent farming lands?” In the 1870’s in America that was the burning question of the day. Men fought about it. Many were killed. Bitter hatred were engendered. The peace of the whole Golden State was disturbed. This situation forms the basis of “Gold Is Where You Find It,” a magnificent motion picture. It is a Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan production, made with the newest Technicolour process—a great, sweeping drama that held audiences spellbound. By far the larger part of the action is outdoors, in nature’s own tints. Warners had an outdoor picture in Technicolour last year “God’s Country and the Woman,” which achieved a tremendous success throughout the world. “Gold Is Where You Find It”

• is much superior—which is indeed high i praise. : Co-starring are George Brent and Olivia de Havilland: Brent as an East- : ern mining engineer in charge of the hydraulic mining, Olivia as the daught- < er of the leading wheat-grower of the i region, Claude Rains. There are plots, counter-plots, ; battles, floods, dynamiting and constant ; turmoil before they reach their ultimate happiness. Taking part in all this ; action are such fine players as Margar- • et Lindsay, John Litel, Marcia Ralston. Barton Mac Lane, Tim Holt (son of the i veteran Jack Holt), Sidney Toler, . Henry O’Neill. Willie Best. Robert Mc- • Wade and a score of others, plus thous- . ands of extras. i "Gold Is Where You Find It” was . directed by Michael Curtis from the i novel by Clements Ripley, which wa_s ' adapted into a screenplay by Warren i Duff and Robert Buckner. It is, be- ; yond question, one of the outstanding ’ photodramas of the season.