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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub owner (Edward G. Robinson) and his efforts at wooing lovely Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), a lovely Eastern lass left to her own devices in the rowdy port city. The innocent babe loses that innocence when she becomes a kept lady, running the roulette wheel in Robinson's nightclub. The plot matures when Mary falls in love with an honest and upright gold miner. When the
Oct 13, 1935 Limited
Mar 8, 2005
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (0) | DVD (4)
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur hammer out a bouncing melodrama of San Francisco's sin and salad days in Barbary Coast.
A wide-open San Francisco, circa 1890, is the background for one of Howard Hawks's intelligent love triangles.
It's an entertaining but lesser Hawks film, too conventional in its storytelling to kick up any dust.
Any self-respecting San Franciscan needs to give Barbary Coast a spin.
The primitive San Francisco is imbued with a lusty spirit, comprised of mud in the streets, tinkly pianos and crooked card games.
...surely this must be the only film to ever feature a climactic rowboat chase...
A bit heavy on the ham in a couple of places but entertaining nontheless, Edward G. is fine as always although he should have rethought the earring. He and Miriam are a fine pair even though he despised her offscreen.
July 2, 2008
Super Reviewer
Director Howard Hawks rarely made misfires, even LAND OF THE PHARAOHS was a great movie, but this Edward G. Robinson movie about the wild and wooly California coast during the gold rush era of the 1850s is curiously lackluster. Basically, it concerns a ruthless underworld boss, the mail-order bride that goes to work
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