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Original title

Tide of Empire

Year

1929

Running time

73 min.

Country

United States

Director

Allan Dwan

Screenwriter

Waldemar Young, Joseph Farnham. Novel: Peter B. Kyne

Cast

Cinematography

Merrit B. Gerstad (B&W)

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios

Genre

Western | 19th Century. Silent Film

Synopsis

The discovery of gold in California in 1848 brings a tide of gold seekers to the area, disrupting the lives of the Guerrero family who have owned nearby Rancho Chico for generations. Among these are Dermod D'Arcy, in partners with a jailer, Bejabbers. At a fiesta where horse races are traditionally run, a stranger notices Dermod's exceptionally fast horse, Pathfinder, and urges him to enter the horse in the race. It becomes a three-horse race, with Don José Guerrero betting his ranch that his horse will win. When Pathfinder wins, Dermod takes the ranch as his share of the winnings and gives it to Don José's daughter, Josephita, with whom he had fallen in love earlier, when he met her. Dermod and Bejabbers leave to search for gold, and the town grows rich as more and more gold is amassed. Meanwhile, a bandit chief, Cannon, met Josephita's brother, Romauldo, and forced him to join the gang, which planned to loot the town of its gold before Wells and Fargo shipped it east. As two of the...

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Tide of Empire

1929

Allan Dwan