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California Conquest is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Lew Landers released in USA on 4 july 1952 with Cornel Wilde

California Conquest (1952)

California Conquest
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Released in USA 4 july 1952
Length 1h18
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Adventure,    Historical,    Romance,    Western
Rating52% 2.616242.616242.616242.616242.61624

California Conquest is a 1952 American film, directed by Lew Landers, and starring Cornel Wilde and Teresa Wright. The film is set in the early 1840s, and deals with a conspiracy by native Spanish Hidalgos to deliver the then-Mexican territory of California to the Russian Empire.

Synopsis

Don Arturo Bordega (Cornel Wilde) is part of the old Spanish nobility, and a vocal advocate for California'a annexation by the United States. On his way to a secret meeting in support of that goal, he is attacked by bandits led by José Martínez (Alfonso Bedoya), but narrowly escapes. The planned "guest of honor" at the secret meeting to which Bordega is en route, is none other than then-U.S. Army Captain John Charles Fremont. Martinez's thugs attempt to assassinate Fremont while he is traveling to the same meeting, but succeed only in lightly wounding him. It is subsequently revealed that the corrupt Brios brothers, Ernesto (Eugene Iglesias) and Fredo (John Dehner) have paid Martinez to violently oppose the movement advocating American annexation of California, as part of their unscrupulous plot to deliver California to the imperial domain of the Russian Czar (in exchange for a promise to appoint first Ernesto, and later Fredo, as the Russian colonial governor).

Actors

Cornel Wilde

(Don Arturo Bordega)Teresa Wright

(Julie Lawrence)Alfonso Bedoya

(José Martínez)John Dehner

(Fredo Brios)Ivan Lebedeff

(Alexander Rotcheff)
And :
Renzo Cesana
Baynes Barron
George Eldredge
Herman Hack
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