Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
Acting
Flynn's bitter edge — no more merry Robin Hood
Direction
Walsh's economic storytelling, 110 minutes of pure narrative
Cinematography
Silver boom towns shot like fever dreams
Director
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn
'Mike' McComb
Ann Sheridan
Georgia Moore
Thomas Mitchell
John Plato Beck
Bruce Bennett
Stanley Moore
Tom D'Andrea
'Pistol' Porter
Barton MacLane
'Banjo' Sweeney
Monte Blue
'Buck' Chevigee
Jonathan Hale
Major Spencer
Al Bridge
Sam Slade
Arthur Space
Major Ross
Ben Corbett
Sweeney Henchman (uncredited)
Tex Driscoll
Miner (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Large Woman (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Flynn's post-war decline, the film mirrors his own reputation for self-destruction.
Raoul Walsh and Flynn made eight films together; this was their penultimate collaboration before 'Rocky Mountain' (1950).
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