Lady of California

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Movie
German title Lady of California
Original title rebellion
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1936
length 62 minutes
Rod
Director Lynn Shores
script John T. Neville
production E. R. Derr ,
Bernard A. Moriarty
music Abe Meyer
camera Arthur Martinelli
cut Donald Barratt
occupation

Lady of California (Original Title: Rebellion ) is an American western with Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth from 1936.

action

After the end of the Mexican-American War in the mid-19th century, many Mexicans continued to feel compelled to fight for their land in California , although it was guaranteed by a treaty with the United States . Because a gang of shady cowboys is doing everything to take the land by force. The young Mexican landowner Paula Castillo is also threatened by the gang's attacks. After her father was ruthlessly murdered, she visits the American President Zachary Taylor in Washington, DC and desperately asks him for help. He immediately sends his confidante, cavalry officer John Carroll, to California to secure the rights of the Mexicans.

In the following years Paula and John fall in love and he befriends her brother Ricardo, who has become the leader of Mexican guerrilla warriors. At first, John was skeptical of the other Mexicans. This changes when the Castillos hacienda is attacked again by the bandits under their leader Harris during a big celebration, John fights the invaders valiantly and finally manages to put them to flight. From now on he enjoys the respect of the people, and Ricardo and his people are ready to lay down their guns temporarily on John's advice.

But with the help of corrupt soldiers, Harris succeeds in arresting John under false pretenses. Ricardo is soon able to free him, but is seriously wounded in the process and then dies in his sister's house. As a result, John is forced to call the Mexicans to their weapons in order to launch several attacks against their enemies. When Harris and his men withdraw, they take Paula prisoner on their escape. John immediately goes in pursuit, rescues Paula and defeats Harris in a face-to-face fight. Peace is now returning to the region. At a big party, John is named California's first governor - with Paula by his side as his newlywed wife.

background

Actor Jack Ingram, who played a minor supporting role in Lady of California , worked for Columbia Pictures in the 1940s when Rita Hayworth was Columbia's biggest star. They met again there, and Ingram was surprised that Hayworth remembered him. When asked if she had changed since the filming of Lady of California , he replied: "She is even more beautiful now, but just as unsophisticated and still as shy as I once met her."

In the 1940s, the film was re-released in the United States by the independent production company Crescent under the title Lady from Frisco . As with Rita Hayworth's second B-Western with Tom Keene under the title Arms Smuggling in Louisiana (1937), her name was at the top of the posters this time, in contrast to the first publication.

Reviews

"Cumbersome, outdated B-Western, in which Rita Hayworth still appeared under her real name Rita Cansino," wrote the lexicon of international films . According to the Motion Picture Herald , the production values ​​of the film are "of high caliber, as is the quality of the representations by the main actors".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "She's much more beautiful now but quite as unaffected and still just as shy as she was when I knew her." Jack Ingram quote. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Lady of California. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 4, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ "Production values ​​of the film are of a high caliber, as is the quality of the acting contributed by the principals." Cf. Motion Picture Herald quoted. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 71.