California Conquest

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 thenMexican territory of California to the Russian Empire.

Martinezs men violently seize a quantity of rifles from gunsmith Sam Lawrence Hank Patterson, in order to arm a force in support of the Russian conquest of California. This invokes the wrath of his beautiful daughter, Julia Teresa Wright, who winds up joining Arturo Bordega in his mission to infiltrate Martinezs bandit group, in order to foil their part in the nefarious scheme. Martinez is eventually killed by Julia Lawrence and Ernesto Brios is slain by Bordega in a duel, during a period in which they learn the nature of the Brios plot. Arturo Bordega and Julia Lawrence eventually travel to Fort Ross, where they are able to capture Fredo Brios as well as a fictional Russian princess, Helena de Gagarine, and a highranking Russian army officer, and otherwise manage to thwart the treasonous conspiracy. During the course of their travels together, Bordega and Lawrence fall in love, and the film concludes with their stated intent to marry, and havechildren.Cornel Wilde ... Don Arturo Bordega Teresa Wright ... Julie Lawrence Alfonso Bedoya ... Jos Martnez Lisa Ferraday ... Helena de Gagarine Eugene Iglesias ... Ernesto Brios John Dehner ... Fredo Brios Ivan Lebedeff ... Alexander Rotcheff Tito Renaldo ... Don Bernardo Mirana Renzo Cesana ... Fr. Lindos ........

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