 In the final scene the aged and impoverished Sutter is shown in Washington, D.C., where he has a vision of America's future industrial might, seeing a land full of skyscrapers and factories.Unlike most American Westerns of the 1930s, "The Kaiser of California" offers a sympathetic portrait of the Indians, whom Sutter respectfully befriends.In this it follows the Karl May tradition of German Western stories, which often featured noble Indians and German immigrants turned pioneers and gunmen.