Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · Starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy
“She Fell In Love . . . with the toughest guy on the toughest street in the world!”
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A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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A grand, sweeping romance set against the backdrop of early San Francisco, this film offers a potent mix of faith, love, and devastating tragedy. It's a classic Hollywood epic that pulls at the heartstrings.
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