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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 .
- $1 million
- Samuel Goldwyn
Barbary Coast: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan. Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
- (2K)
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1935-12-27
Barbary Coast (1935) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Forced to remain in San Francisco after the murder of her fiancé, Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins) takes a job in the saloon of powerful Louis Chamalis (Edward G. Robinson), the man responsible for...
- (26)
- Miriam Hopkins
- Howard Hawks
- Adventure
Set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush of the 1890s, Barbary Coast follows the wild and wooly exploits of Luis Chamalis (Edward G. Robinson), a crooked casino owner who falls hard for Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), a woman from the east who finds herself stranded in California. Soon enough, Mary is running the roulette wheel at Luis' casino ...
- Howard Hawks, Walter Mayo
- Miriam Hopkins
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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.