Flame of Barbary Coast

1945

Action / Drama / Musical / Romance / Western

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 1771 1.8K

montana entertainer money cowboy barbary coast

Plot summary

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Director

Joseph Kane Photo
Joseph Kane

Top cast

Charles Meakin Photo
Charles Meakin as Saloon Patron
Bobby Barber Photo
Bobby Barber as Silk Manners
Frank Hagney Photo
Frank Hagney as Morell Henchman
William A. Boardway Photo
William A. Boardway as Saloon Patron
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
757.09 MB
988*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 2
1.44 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by darkinvader45210

Learn How To Make A Movie; Watch Flame of The Barbary Coast

"Flame of the Barbary Coast" is a movie that I grew up watching in a movie theatre. It's easy to poke fun at a movie like this, or any movie made in that era, if you've only seen it on television. The power and quality of the performance of the film can only be seen on the big screen and not on the television screen. Actually, the cast is quite good and anyone interested in directing or photographing a movie should learn from the film. This movie makes every second and minutes count on the screen, and that's the reason the action never stops. Moving the camera in a certain way to make use of the drama and action with out two many cuts is genius, but then, these people knew what they were doing. Many repeats for good measure with eyes on an actor or actress moving side to side as if they are actually participating in the scene. The catty remarks between Virginia Gray and Ann Dvorak after Virginia Gray sings for an audition with Tito, oh boy - meow indeed! Who cares if Ann Dvoraks singing was a little off, and who cares if John Wayne tried his hand at singing on a horse? Who cares if Fred Mertz played a gambler before he was Ricky Ricardo's best friend? Who care's if Butterfly McQueen didn't get a chance to repeat "Ah knows how to birth babies Miss Scahlett!"? This movie is just good old fashioned campy entertainment with no foul words, no nudity, and in many ways the bad guy won when he said, "With Compliments of the House!" Anybody who doesn't like this movie is an old grumpy!
Reviewed by AlsExGal 6 / 10

Even a Republic A picture seems like derivative material here

John Wayne stars as Montana cattle rancher Duke Fergus. He heads to San Francisco to conduct some business and ends up losing his shirt at the Barbary Coast gambling dens, particularly that of Tito Morell (Joseph Schildkraut). Duke vows to master the gambling arts and return to Frisco, not just for revenge, but to win the hand of Morell's showgirl moll Flaxen Tarry (Ann Dvorak). This being turn-of-the-century San Francisco, you just know that the Great Earthquake is going interrupt everyone's plans.This was another of Republic's "A" pictures, with time spent on costumes, sets, and expensive set-pieces (such as the earthquake sequence, or a large cattle drive). The movie isn't terrible, but the script is bit weak, like in most of these Republic showcases. There's never a good rhythm established to the narrative, and the three main characters never rise above sketches. Dvorak looks good, but if that's her real singing voice heard on the soundtrack, it's pretty awful. Still, if one likes SF earthquake melodrama and adventure, this may be worth checking out. It earned two Oscar nominations, for Best Sound, and Best Score.
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