09 Jun 1982
Hammett
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
San Francisco
She Fell In Love . . . with the toughest guy on the toughest street in the world!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Clark Gable Blackie Norton
Jeanette MacDonald Mary Blake
Spencer Tracy Father Tim Mullin
Jack Holt Jack Burley
Jessie Ralph Mrs. Maisie Burley
Ted Healy Mat
Shirley Ross Trixie
Margaret Irving Della Bailey
Harold Huber 'Babe'
Edgar Kennedy Sheriff
Al Shean Professor
William Ricciardi Signor Baldini
Kenneth Harlan 'Chick'
Roger Imhof 'Alaska'
Charles Judels Tony
Russell Simpson 'Red' Kelly
Bert Roach Freddie Duane
Warren Hymer Hazeltine
Adrienne D'Ambricourt Madame Albani (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
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