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best movie i've ever seen.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Maisie (Ann Sothern) heads west where she helps a poor family trying to strike it rich as prospectors. Sothern is as delightful as ever. Lee Bowman is fine in yet another crappy male lead role in this series. For some reason they always paired Maisie up with jerks. Maybe so people wouldn't complain when she moved on to another guy in the next movie. Slim Summerville is great as Bowman's friend. He does some classic double takes. Virginia Weidler is likable as the little girl who takes a shine to Maisie. Rest of the cast includes Scotty Beckett, Mary Nash, Irving Bacon, John F. Hamilton, and Eddy Waller. Another enjoyable Maisie movie. Not the best but solid. The Maisie-meets-the-Joads element is nice. One odd moment that stood out to me was when Maisie told the family she's helping that she took a swing at a guy once for daring to call her a gold digger, followed by awkward nervous laughter from the family. Such a weird scene.

As usual, Ann Sothern is the excite-able "Maisie", stranded again, SOMEWHERE. They show joshua trees, so she must have been somewhere in the mojave desert. Although that was probably just a backlot with a backdrop. When her car breaks down, she bumps into Bill (Lee Bowman) and Fred ( Slim Summerville), who get her car going again, but success is short lived. Now Maisie bumps into the Davis family, scratching for gold. Virginia Weidler is the daughter... you may recognize her from "The Women", where she was over-the-top, saccharin sweet and emotional. Here, she's just a normal kid. This one has a pretty thin plot... they had a couple ideas, and put lots of talking in between. Takes a while to get going, but does get better in the second half. Just my opinion. Could be wrong. It DOES have the moral lesson, as Maisie films usually do. See what you think. It's on Turner Classics now and then. Writer C.W. Collison had come up with "Maisie", but then he croaked young in 1941. Collison's death didn't stop them from making movies about Maisie... they were still making them in 1960! Collison had also written the Oscar nominated "Mogambo", with Clark Gable. This Maisie chapter directed by several different folks, apparently due to illness.

The movie may not have done much for comedic Maisie, but it' a worthy reflection of Depression era straits. I like the way Maisie's slowly drawn into the Davis family plight. They're a hard-scrabble family who've lost their farm, along with thousands of others, and are now living hand to mouth. The city-bred Maisie meets up with them as they along with other dispossessed farmers are traveling as part of a rumored gold rush. Though separated at first by a cultural contrast, Maisie's drawn into the family by the common humanity their plight represents, especially by winning little Jubie Davis (Weidler). Together, they share their meager money, along with hopes of a gold strike that will lift their fortunes.Though MGM has hired a big crowd of extras and costumed them in appropriately seedy clothes, Maisie still stands out. But what about those tacky exteriors that fairly shout studio sound stage. Why make the costuming so realistic, then background them with such outdoor phoniness. After all, this is MGM. At times, Sothern's a little shrill for my taste, but manages to remain likable, while actor Bowman as the reluctant benefactor makes for a churlish and unusual leading man. Too bad little Weidler is largely forgotten. She made for a charmingly plain-faced youngster, without being cutesy. Anyway, the overall result is a curious combination of Depression era drama and Maisie type spunk minus the series' usual laughs. So, fans of the series may find this entry too pointed for their liking. But I enjoyed it for its strong moral and as a reflection of the desperate times.(In passing-- My dad owned a Colorado gold mine many years ago, and I remember as a boy how eagerly he awaited assay office results so he would know where next to tunnel. In fact, with a few notable exceptions gold in its natural state is unrecognizable. Instead, it's blended into ore that must then be tested for its gold content. So the movie's element of suspense is not fictional.)

This is the third of eleven Maisie movies MGM made with Ann Sothern. Maisie's character seems a lot like Dr. Kimbell in "The Fugitive" because each of the films finds Maisie moving on to yet another locale. In "Gold Rush Maisie", this dancer has been hired for a job in some dive in the middle of the desert. However, hr car breaks down on the way and she's forced to stay with a couple misanthropes who live in the desert. Lee Bowman and Slim Summerville play Bill and Fred--two angry guys who hate everyone and treat Maisie like a leper for bothering them. She eventually does leave and assumes she'll never be back to see these grumpy guys. However, later she meets up with a homeless family living in their car and traveling to some supposed gold strike--hoping to try their luck. Naturally, this takes them back to the property owned by the grumpuses--Bill and Fred. Can Maisie's winning personality win over these grouches or is there some deep dark secret and that's why they don't want them on the land. Well, the latter turns out not to be the case--they just hate everyone and Maisie MIGHT be able to do something about this and help the starving families at the same time.This is an interesting movie because it's one of the few from the era that acknowledges that there IS a Depression! In so many Hollywood films of the time, the characters are rich or at least middle class and quite unaffected by the hard economic times. This is good. However, I felt angry because I assumed there was some secret for why Fred and Bill were so nasty. But, instead, it was a bit like a sappy version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" where Maisie melts their hearts and save the day. Yick. It's fair but sappy entertainment and no more.