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Budget. $1 million [1] Edward G. Robinson and Miriam Hopkins. Barbary Coast is a 1935 American historical Western film directed by Howard Hawks. Shot in black-and-white and set in San Francisco's so-called Barbary Coast during the California Gold Rush, the film combines elements of the Western genre with those of crime, melodrama and adventure.
Dec 22, 2016 · Think again, as Barbary Coast has a few surprises in store for you. In fact Edward G. Robinson is playing to type as Luis Chamalis, a local thug who has garnered control of most of the city and operates the largest saloon and gaming house in the area, catering almost exclusively to prospectors and liberating them both fairly and otherwise of ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Whoever said it, you could apply it to “Barbary Coast.” The story in the movie is silly—dictated by its time and stars. A hifalutin dame, Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), soon nicknamed “Swan,” is set to land in gold-mad, 1850s San Francisco, the notorious Barbary Coast, to be the bride of a man she’d never met: Dan Morgan.
Barbary Coast (1935) - There were constant struggles between Miriam Hopkins and Edward G. Robinson during the shooting of the movie. She constantly changed her lines and tried to upstage and unsettle Robinson's performance. After two weeks they had to shoot a scene where Robinson had to slap his co-star. He did just that, but put such force in it that she fell to the ground. After a pause the ...
Apr 16, 2015 · Barbary Coast. By Richard Brody. April 16, 2015. Soon after the censorious Hays Code kicked in, Howard Hawks gleefully flouted it in his uncharacteristically sentimental urban Western, from 1935 ...
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Frank Craven, another great character performer, also gives great value as the ill-fated publishing man Marcus Aurelius Cobb. If these arresting performances were matched by Robinson and Hopkins, Barbary Coast might easily have been one of Hawks's early triumphs rather than a slightly embarrassing footnote in a great career.
Jan 26, 2010 · In Edward G. Robinson's autobiography, he relates his on-set relationship with his co-star Miriam Hopkins, during the filming of their joint venture, Barbary CoastBarbary
