European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Barry Fitzgerald and Barbara Stanwyck give adequate performances of Stock characters in an uninspiring horse of now showing of the zone California an expensive cast fails to raise this Western Abote its Grade b Story of rip roaring and even a spectacular knife fight Haven been Able to make California much More than just another the much worn devices of Gold gambling Halls and a Boom town Are All wrap Ped up into a rather Lumpy Ray George Coulouris do Good jobs on the few occasions when they get some thing worthwhile to but Barbara Stanwyck Doest even have a Chance to do she just walks off and on As the typical Frontier Gal who 14 and shifts sides from villian to hero just in Barry of whom one Learned to expect turns in a stereotyped portrayal of the Farmer idealist who has Faith in the the action revolves rather loosely around conflict Between the settlers who want statehood for California and a greedy tyrant who wants to Rule them by the Only thing that makes Ca fornia slightly different from the average horse opera is that the hero Doest win All the fights and does slap and the villian is explained As Case whose evil attitude is the result of but the new twists make More than a Small Dent in the place execution of a mediocre movie the trappings Are tag and and have the extravagant look that so if the moviegoer is not anything More than a gut trimmed an evenings he wont appointed with Paramount Convent not