Barbary Coast

Oct 13, 1935

1h 31m

★ 6.6

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Romance

Western

Drama

Production Companies

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

United Artists

Barbary Coast Trailers

Cast

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge

Miriam Hopkins

Luis Chamalis

Edward G. Robinson

Jim Carmichael

Joel McCrea

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Walter Brennan

Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb

Frank Craven

Knuckles Jacoby

Brian Donlevy

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Clyde Cook

Jed Slocum

Harry Carey

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Matt McHugh

Sawbuck McTavish

Donald Meek

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Rollo Lloyd

Sandy Ferguson

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