Virginia City is a 1940 black-and-white movie starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, and Randolph Scott, and featuring a mustachioed Humphrey Bogart in the role of the real-life outlaw John Murrell. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, who also directed such film classics as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Casablanca.
The action begins in a Confederate prison, from which Union officer Kerry Bradford (Flynn) stages a daring escape under the no...
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Virginia City is a 1940 black-and-white movie starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, and Randolph Scott, and featuring a mustachioed Humphrey Bogart in the role of the real-life outlaw John Murrell. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, who also directed such film classics as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Casablanca.
The action begins in a Confederate prison, from which Union officer Kerry Bradford (Flynn) stages a daring escape under the nose of the prison's warden, Vance Irby (Scott) — but not before learning that the rebels plan to smuggle five million dollars in gold from Virginia City, Nevada (in Union territory), to Texas, from which it can be shipped to Richmond to aid the Confederate war effort. Bradford reports to Union headquarters and is immediately sent to Virginia City, to determine where the gold is being kept. On the stagecoach, he meets and falls in love with the elegant Julia Hayne (Hopkins), who unbeknownst to him is in fact a dance-hall girl — and a rebel spy!...
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