ApprovedBarbary Coast

Popularity

66%

IMDB (2,030 votes)

6.8 /10

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Rotten Tomatoes

92%
500M
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500M
Revenue: N/A
Play Time: 91 mins
Romance, Western, Drama
Barbary Coast

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.

Status: Released (1935-10-13)
Awards:Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
Screen:Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov
Productions: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, United Artists
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Barbary Coast
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CinemaSerf

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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 ....

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