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..
Is it worth a watch? If you like movies that feel like they were pulled out of a dusty trunk, you’ll dig this. It’s got that 1930s studio sheen but with enough grit to make it feel like 1850s California. If you’re allergic to old-school melodrama or movies where the dialogue feels like it was written with a fountain pe...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Howard Hawks
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"Is it worth a watch? If you like movies that feel like they were pulled out of a dusty trunk, you’ll dig this. It’s got that 1930s studio sheen but with enough grit to make it feel like 1850s California. If you’re allergic to old-school melodrama or movies where the dialogue feels like it was written with a fountain pen, maybe skip it. It’s not for the quick-cut crowd. The vibe There’s this weird, frantic energy to the way San Francisco is portrayed here. It’s not the romanticized version of th..."
Stephen Longstreet, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov
United States
Drama, Romance, Adventure
