Hardboiled Rose

Mar 30, 1929

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Melodramatic romance of Dixieland!

Overview

A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Hardboiled Rose Trailers

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Cast

Rose Duhamel

Myrna Loy

Steve Wallace

John Miljan

Julie Malo

Gladys Brockwell

Grandmama Duhamel

Lucy Beaumont

John Trask

Ralph Emerson

Jefferson Duhamel

Edward Martindel

Apyton Hale

Otto Hoffman

Butler

Floyd Shackelford

Edward Malo

William Collier Jr.

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