Title:Barbary Coast

Date: 1935
Type: Historical drama
Rating:

4/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Comment
A woman (Miriam Hopkins) arrives in San Francisco in the middle of the gold rush only to find that the man she was due to marry is dead. She gets a job working the rouette wheel in a club run by the local gangster (Edawrd g Robinson) . She meets and falls for in innocent prospecter (Joel McCrae) and is caught between her loyalty to both men and all this is set against a background of the peole of San Francisco tryng to get rid of the gangster and his hired killers (Brian Donlevy). This is a good film thanks to the performances of Edward G Robnson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea.
Actors

Harry Carey
Matt McHugh

Donald Meek
Rollo Lloyd

J M Kerrigan
Roger Gray
Oscars
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Barbary Coast