Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Fighting Thru (1930)

Fighting Thru poster
Directed by
William Nigh
Genre
romance, western
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 01m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A gold miner in the California Gold Rush tries to rescue his partner and win the heart of a frontier woman. The story is set in 1878 and follows his efforts against the backdrop of the Old West.

old-fashionedromanticruggedbreezyearnestlight-heartedsimple

What happens

Fighting Thru, also known as California in 1878, is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film directed by William Nigh and starring Ken Maynard, Jeanette Loff, and Wallace MacDonald. Its plot follows a gold miner from the California Gold Rush who attempts to save his partner and vie for the affections of a young frontier woman. The film was released by Tiffany Pictures in December 1930, and re-released in 1937 through Amity Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?