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Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 13, 1935

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Romance, Western, Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

Barbary Coast

Production Companies

Samuel Goldwyn Productions, United Artists

Director

Howard Hawks

Description

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.