In a California mining town, a gold miner, a saloon gambler and a cat-house madam strike an odd alliance revolving around a gold mine claim.In a California mining town, a gold miner, a saloon gambler and a cat-house madam strike an odd alliance revolving around a gold mine claim.In a California mining town, a gold miner, a saloon gambler and a cat-house madam strike an odd alliance revolving around a gold mine claim.
Anthony Caruso
- Turner
- (as Tony Caruso)
Fred Aldrich
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
George Barrows
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
John Barton
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Dock Worker
- (uncredited)
John Cason
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Albert Cavens
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJohn Payne and Ronald Reagan were both signed as contract players at Warner Brothers around the same time. Payne was later let go and signed for 20th Century Fox where he made his name, while Reagan remained at Warner's. The two were good friends for nearly 50 years, but this was the first and only time they ever shared the screen.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Nankai no noroshi (1960)
- SoundtracksHEART OF GOLD
Music by Louis Forbes
Lyrics by Dave Franklin
Sung by chorus behind credits; also by Rhonda Fleming (uncredited)
Featured review
Yeah ... whatever
John Payne is a gambler living in a California gold mining town. Rhonda Fleming owns the local bordello. When a guy who's upset with Payne tries to kill him, Ronald Reagan steps in and saves him. An uneasy friendship forms, made more uneasy by the relationship between Payne and Reagan's fiancé Collen Gray.
I can't say I thought much of this film. There's a bizarre, cheap unreality to it that I found constantly distracting. Fleming's "bordello" located in a pretty small frontier town has utterly palatial interiors that feel like sets borrowed from a film about Louis XIV. The gambling loss that Payne and random guy argue about is said to be $12,000, which would be well over a quarter of a million dollars in today's currency. (It's not clear how anyone could casually lose that much during an evening's poker game.)
All this odd cheapness ended up amounting to a film I stopped paying much attention to. Reagan and Payne seemed to work it all out in the end.
Reagan's character is named "Cowpoke".
I can't say I thought much of this film. There's a bizarre, cheap unreality to it that I found constantly distracting. Fleming's "bordello" located in a pretty small frontier town has utterly palatial interiors that feel like sets borrowed from a film about Louis XIV. The gambling loss that Payne and random guy argue about is said to be $12,000, which would be well over a quarter of a million dollars in today's currency. (It's not clear how anyone could casually lose that much during an evening's poker game.)
All this odd cheapness ended up amounting to a film I stopped paying much attention to. Reagan and Payne seemed to work it all out in the end.
Reagan's character is named "Cowpoke".
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- rdoyle29
- Nov 28, 2022
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Bret Harte's Tennessee's Partner
- Filming locations
- Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Town of Sandy Bar, California)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,100,000
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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