Foresters’ Hall Pictures

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 2, 3 January 1940, Page 2

Foresters’ Hall Pictures

“GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT” With George Brent and Olivia de Havilland as its stars, “Gold Is Where You Find It,” a thrilling of California in the 1870’s, screens at the Foresters’ Hall Pictures finally to-night at 8 p.m. It is a Warner Bros. Cosmopolitan production in tochnicoJour and according to reports of previewers is one of the really best pictures of the season. “Gold is Where You Find It” deals with a phase of gold-seeking that has hitherto been untouched by the movies—the hydraulic mining whereby tremendously powerful streams of water ripped away hillsides, from the debris of which the miners sifted their metal. But this debris overflowed upon the lands of the wheatgrowers and orchardists, and warfare resulted—a conflict that was prolonged and deadly. The fight extended over a number of years, nearly split the State of California in , two, and was not settled until a Court decision declared in favour of the agriculturists and made the hydraulic interests quit. Supporting Brent and Miss de Havilland are Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay, John Lite], Marcia Ralston, Barton Mac Lane, Tim Holt (young son of the famous Jack), Sidney Toler, Henry O’Neill, Willie Best, Robert McWade, Harry Davenport, a. score of others, plus thousands of extras. “Gold is Where You Find It” was made on tho actual locale of the ancient war and was directed by Michael Curtiz, maker of such successful action dramas as “Captain Blood” and “Charge of the Light Brigade.” It is based upon Clement Ripley’s novel.