Barbary Coast

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.

Cast

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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...

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