Barbary Coast
“Love was a gamble she couldn't afford to lose.”
RomanceWesternDrama
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.
VIBE
A smoky, pre-Code dive into San Francisco's lawless past. It's a tale of desperate ambition and dangerous liaisons, where fortunes are won and lost on the spin of a wheel, and love is as treacherous as the city's underbelly.
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