Directed by Henry King
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM/Fox)
Eastern tycoon tries to tame the Colorado river and transform the desert into an Eden. The first step is to build a dam, but his chief engineer, Ronald Coleman, has trouble keeping the local folks in line. He gets tangled up in a romance with desert beauty Vilma Banky and her other suitor, a young Gary Cooper in his first credited role. The plot goes astray with some convoluted business dealings, causing most of the population to skip town. Then the dam breaks, destroying the town, well, at least a miniature model of the town. Desert location shooting elevates this melodramatic Hollywood spectacle to just tolerable.
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