Fresh
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur hammer out a bouncing melodrama of San Francisco's sin and salad days in Barbary Coast.
Andre Sennwald, New York Times
Barbary Coast
Love was a gamble she couldn't afford to lose.
1935 · 1h 30m · Approved
Drama, Romance, Western
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Overview
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
Director and cast
- Howard Hawks Director
- Miriam Hopkins as Mary 'Swan' Rutledge
- Edward G. Robinson as Luis Chamalis
- Joel McCrea as Jim Carmichael
- Walter Brennan as Old Atrocity
- Frank Craven as Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb
- Brian Donlevy as Knuckles Jacoby
- Clyde Cook as Oakie
- Harry Carey as Jed Slocum
- Matt McHugh as Broncho
- Donald Meek as Sawbuck McTavish
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A wide-open San Francisco, circa 1890, is the background for one of Howard Hawks's intelligent love triangles.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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