California (1927 film)


California is a 1927 American Western silent 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 6-7, 1846, part of the Mexican–American War, in which Stephen W. Kearny's U.S. forces fought Californio lancers in the San Pasqual Valley, just east of Escondido, California.

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