A gaudy, tumultuous story, jammed with director Hawks' special action, this film rollicks with all the zest of 1850 San Francisco. Hopkins is a genteel lady from the East who finds her intended dead on her arrival in the great, brawling seaport. Newspaper publisher Craven offers to take
Hopkins in, but she refuses and is soon swept into the waterfront life of Robinson, crime czar of the city, becoming a plumed shill for his notoriously crooked roulette wheel, freely admitting that she is mercenary, only out for the percentage of gold she fleeces from gullible miners under her
spell. Robinson is his typically snarling, wonderfully offensive self. He demands and gets...
Released:
1935
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins