it have be say and a city on hill can not hide itself and virginia city and nevada and perch on the side of mt . davidson at 6200 ft. west of tahoe and be a prime example and or in the context of the movie and should be . virginia city explode in the american dream a a shower of gold and silver and suspiciously the same year the civil war begin . it be the birthplace of the dean of american letter while it be where a young reporter name samuel clemens begin use the name mark twain and go on to become america most famous writer . it be also the birthplace of the great hearst fortune and and the launch pad of john mackay and who become the wealthy man in america and the third wealthy man in the world . hey and they should have make the movie about him . in the 1860 virginia city be the boomtown of all boomtowns and the home of the big bonanza and at one time the large metropolitan area west of st. louis and east of san francisco . but virginia city ( the movie ) miss all that and be more about a hogwash north or south duello between the character play by errol flynn and randolph scott . flynn be capt . kerry bradford and a union officer who be a pow in a concentration camp run by a mean confederate commander name capt . vance irby and play by scott . these two be always get in each other way . bradford escape and then try to stop a shipment of gold bullion be sneak out of vc by who else other than . . . irby . hey and what he do here . horrible . bogart play a laughable mexican bandit who can not decide who side he on . miriam hopkins play a murky character name julia hayne and obviously a historical lunge at the town first lady and julia bulette and who in real life a celebrated prostitute . she go to washington and talk honest abe about save bradford ( not irby ) from hang and blah blah blah . go figure . they shoulda hung the writer . in real life twain report that on the last day of the war and the setting sun cause the american flag atop mt . davidson to appear to the puzzled resident to be weirdly on fire and kind of like the movie . three day later they discover that on that day the south capitulate . one interest quirk in the film be how sidekicks alan hale and guin williams flick their pistol forward when they shoot and like theyre fishing and or try to make the bullet go faster . not a bad idea for the movie . the same kind of goofiness be lather over sap and corn throughout the movie . gosh and how could they miss the gold madness and profligate wealth and gun battle in the silver mine and mark twain get run out of town and beat up after a showdown and the crooked railroad and the opera house fire and artemis ward and bulette huge funeral and the chinese tongs and the black saloon and the auction . . . all this high on a mountain surround by desert . the truth be unreal . do it fabulous wealth actually spark the great american holocaust . well and if you count this movie and it wouldn not be the first debacle to come out of virginia city . it a disappointment for virginia city fan because it miss what make the town a city of illusion and where it be say evil seeps out of the ground . . . okay and other than that it a fun movie . flynn and the gang be always great no matter what history theyre destroying . if flynn would just play his rotten self i would double my rating .