12 May 1951
The House on Telegraph Hill
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Barbary Coast
Love was a gamble she couldn't afford to lose.
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.
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Miriam Hopkins Mary 'Swan' Rutledge
Edward G. Robinson Luis Chamalis
Joel McCrea Jim Carmichael
Walter Brennan Old Atrocity
Frank Craven Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb
Brian Donlevy Knuckles Jacoby
Clyde Cook Oakie
Harry Carey Jed Slocum
Matt McHugh Broncho
Donald Meek Sawbuck McTavish
Rollo Lloyd Wigham
Roger Gray Sandy Ferguson
David Niven Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
Hank Worden Barfly / Townsman (uncredited)
J.M. Kerrigan Judge Harper
Wong Chung Ah Wing
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