An American Western; A story set in the late 1840s about a pharmacist from Boston who opens a shop in Sacramento shortly before the Gold Rush and attracts interest from good and bad. John Wayne gives a good performance with a trademark sturdy, manly presence. The film provides light comic relief, action and romance but it is a slight story stretched to a feature length. The direction is adequate but nothing more. Predictably there are gunfights, romance, horseback chases and comical drunkards but, alas, no surprises.
Review of In Old California
