Miscasting of Hopkins and Bogart...
Disappointed in VIRGINIA CITY. In no way does it measure up to the Flynn/de Havilland DODGE CITY which came a year earlier. The story was really a plot-heavy thing involving bandits, gold, prison escapees, and juggled several sub-plots with no particular skill.
Miriam Hopkins can barely carry a tune as a dance hall gal and Humphrey Bogart is a Mexican bandit with a Brooklyn accent. Both looked mighty uncomfortable in their assignments.
Lack of chemistry between Flynn and Hopkins was no help. Catch the final scene with the close-up of the two holding hands. She looks at him with an icy stare and they don't kiss. It figures.