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Barbary Coast

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

1935 · 1h 31m · Approved Drama, Romance, Western
Directed by Howard Hawks

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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.

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92%
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Fresh

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur hammer out a bouncing melodrama of San Francisco's sin and salad days in Barbary Coast.

Andre Sennwald, New York Times
Fresh

A wide-open San Francisco, circa 1890, is the background for one of Howard Hawks's intelligent love triangles.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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