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Barbary Coast

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

6.4(40)19351h 30m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • san francisco, california
  • roulette
  • gambling house

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Director

Howard Hawks

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR13 Oct 1935
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical10 Feb 1936
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical27 Dec 1935
  • South KoreaKR

    • Theatrical29 Jul 1946

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Barbary Coast was released on 13 October 1935.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/19/2022

    6/10

    It's quite interesting to see Edward G Robinson ("Louis Chamalis") in this period melodrama sets in a largely lawless San Francisco of the 1850s, but charismatic as he certainly is - even with his coiffured hair and frilly shirts - he cannot really raise this mediocre effort. Miriam Hopkins is "Swan" - a woman who arrives from New York to marry a miner who has fallen foul of the drink/gambling and gunmen. Determined …

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