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California (1927 film)
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Wikipedia article
'California' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings and Frank Davis. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Marc McDermott, Frank Currier and Fred Warren. The film was released on May 7, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Plot
The film dramatized the Battle of San Pasqual, of December 67, 1846, a battle of the MexicanAmerican War 1846-1848, in which General Stephen W. Kearny's U.S. Dragoons fought Californio lancers in the San Pasqual Valley, just east of Escondido, California.Grace Kingsley, "Tim McCoy's New One," 'Los Angeles Times', March 4, 1927.
Cast
* Tim McCoy as Capt. Archibald Gillespie
* Dorothy Sebastian as Carlotta del Rey
* Marc McDermott as Drachano
* Frank Currier as Don Carlos del Rey
* Fred Warren as Kit Carson
* Lillian Leighton as Duenna
* Edwin Terry as Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny
References
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