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.

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
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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...