Barbary Coast
1935 · 97 min
Directed by Howard Hawks, William Wyler. Written by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov. Starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan.
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.
Critics 92% · audiences 50% · streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy, Plex · 1 Oscar nomination