California

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California is a 1963 American Western film directed by Hamil Petroff and starring Jock Mahoney and Faith Domergue.

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Plot

Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841. Mexican general Don Francisco Hernandez pits his troops against a tenacious team of revolutionaries led by his half-brother Don Michael O'Casey. Marianna De La Rosa is an heiress pledged to marry Don Francisco although she secretly loves Don Michael.

Cast

Jock Mahoney as Don Michael O'Casey

Faith Domergue as Carlotta Torres

Michael Pate as Don Francisco Hernandez

Susan Seaforth Hayes as Marianna De La Rosa (as Susan Seaforth)

Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. as Padre Soler (as Rodolfo Hoyos)

Penny Santon as Dona Ana Sofia Hicenta

Jimmy Murphy as Jacinto

Nestor Paiva as Gen. Micheltorena

Roberto Contreras as Lt. Sanchez (as Roberto Contreres)

Felix Locher as Don Pablo Hernandez

Charles Horvath as Manuel

Production

The film was shot on the old Republic lot. The sword fight at the end was director Hamil Petroff's last-minute idea and it did not appear in the original script.

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“California's a wonderful place to live — if you happen to be an orange.”
— Fred Allen, as reported in 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), by Steven D. Price, p. viii
“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has a tendency to spread.”
— Attributed to Jimmy Carter in a 1977 cabinet meeting; reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.
“Consider California. Its wealth was initially built on gold mines. But today it is built on silicon and celluloid - Silicon Valley and the celluloid hills of Hollywood.”
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 18: "The Permanent Revolution"
“California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”
— D. H. Lawrence, letter (September 24, 1923); published in The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987), vol. 4
“When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. It was the heart of the hippie activity, and it was our culture, our generation, expressing itself at its most festive, so it was a real magnet for the young people … with the love-ins and so on.”
— Joni Mitchell, on coming to California in 1969, as quoted in "Joni on Point" in The Los Angeles Times (7 June 2009).
“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”
— Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (1937, reprinted 1971), p. 289

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