Barbary Coast

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

Dec 27 1935 Approved 1h 31m
Adventure, Drama, Romance

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.

Plot

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Louis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.

Written by

Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov

Directed by

Howard Hawks

Cast

Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

United Artists, Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total

Trailers
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# of Votes
2,314
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
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