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The Outcasts of Poker Flat is a 1937 American Western film directed by Christy Cabanne and written by John Twist and Harry Segall. The film stars Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler and Margaret Irving. The film was released on April 16, 1937, by RKO Pictures.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat: Directed by Christy Cabanne. With Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler. A California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders.
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- Drama, Western
- Christy Cabanne
- 1937-04-16
In any case, the 1937 Outcasts of Poker Flat, for all its slicing and dicing of Harte, allows the spine of the film to remain mob injustice, especially when the mob assumes it's doing God's will. Or, as Harte puts its still balefully relevant anti-hypocrisy theme in the third paragraph of his story: "a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as ...
- Christy Cabanne, Doran Cox
- Preston Foster
A California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are run out of the camp. During a blizzard ...
- 67 min
- 768
- Western Films
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937) Mark Franklin June 15, 2015 1930s. Preston Foster plays John Oakhurst, a no-nonsense saloon owner who takes an orphaned baby girl under his wings after a rich vein of silver is struck the day she is born. In fact, she’s named Luck and grows up dealing cards until civilization arrives in Poker Flat, in the ...
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Falling head over heels in love with the new schoolmarm, Miss Helen Colby (Jean Muir), Oakhurst enrolls an unwilling Luck in her school, after which the profits at his gambling halls start falling. Failing to keep himself away from teacher Helen, Oakhurst also gradually loses his foothold in the community of wild folks he used to be king of.
