Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

91 mins | Action, Romance, Western | Oct. 13, 1935

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.

Barbary Coast

91 mins | Action, Romance, Western | Oct. 13, 1935

Barbary Coast
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers United Artists, Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Original title Barbary Coast
Directors Howard Hawks
Writers Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht

Cast

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

Rollo Lloyd

as Wigham

Roger Gray

as Sandy Ferguson

David Niven

as Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)

Hank Worden

as Barfly / Townsman (uncredited)

J. M. Kerrigan

as Judge Harper

Wong Chung

as Ah Wing