Barbary Coast Poster

Barbary Coast

Love was a gamble she couldn't afford to lose.

Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven

Writer: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Release Date:
October 13, 1935
Ratings:
6.4 / 10
Director:
Howard Hawks
Companies:
Samuel Goldwyn Productions

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.