When Dick Bristow, an American mining engineer, discovers a rich vein of copper in an isolated desert region of old Mexico, he shrewdly secures an option on a large tract of land surrounding his claim from Julian Marr, an unprincipled mine and railway owner. The property is actually part of an estate belonging to Marr's ward and niece Janet, and when Bristow begins to build a railway to transport the ore from his holdings, Marr soon suspects that the land may be valuable.


The first time you see Dick Bristow’s silhouette break the horizon, he is nothing but a thirst-quenched outline against a copper sky, and already you sense the mythic circuitry humming beneath this 1920 slab of celluloid. The Coast of Opportunity is not merely a salvageable curio; it is a fossilized thunderclap of Am...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Ernest C. Warde

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" The first time you see Dick Bristow’s silhouette break the horizon, he is nothing but a thirst-quenched outline against a copper sky, and already you sense the mythic circuitry humming beneath this 1920 slab of celluloid. The Coast of Opportunity is not merely a salvageable curio; it is a fossilized thunderclap of American ambition, a film that anticipates the toxic mergers of Wall Street and the manifest-daydreams of Silicon Valley prospectors a full century early. Director Frederick Stowers..."

Edward Hearn
Frederick Stowers, Page Phillips
United States

