The Californian
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
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"Gene Reynolds is sent from happy, carefree California to Spain to grow up to be a Spanish gentleman. When he returns as Ricardo Cortez, he finds California changed, his father almost broke, because the Yankees are in charge, making up false taxes and seizing the ranchos. So he joins the bandits under George Regas, and takes over on a paying basis. This cheap movie directed by Gus Meins looks like it's going to be Zorro, but turns into something far more standard and uninvolving. There's the typical bad guy and it all depends on getting the the incriminating documents to the honest d..."
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This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Los Angeles Tuesday 3 February 1948 on KTLA (Channel 5); it first aired in New York City Saturday 22 April 1950 on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5).
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Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.