Barbary Coast Gent (1944)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Roy Del Ruth

Writers:

William R. Lipman (story) and
Grant Garett (story) ...

Release Date:

September 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Tagline:

Roaring ACTION! Riotous ROMANCE!

Plot:

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada...

Plot Keywords:

Con Man | Nevada | Revenge | Wells Fargo | Grandfather

Cast

Wallace Beery	...	Honest Plush Brannon
Binnie Barnes	...	Lil Damish
John Carradine	...	Duke Cleat
Bruce Kellogg	...	Bradford Bellamy III
Frances Rafferty	...	Portia Adair
Chill Wills	...	Sheriff Hightower
Noah Beery	...	Pete Hanibal (as Noah Beery Sr.)
Henry O'Neill	...	Colonel Watrous
Ray Collins	...	Johnny Adair
Morris Ankrum	...	Alec Veeder
Donald Meek	...	Bradford Bellamy I
Addison Richards	...	Wade Garnelin
Harry Hayden	...	Elias Porter
Paul E. Burns	...	Tim Shea
Paul Hurst	...	Jake Compton

Also Known As:

Gold Town
The Honest Thief

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #10072) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Filming Locations:

Borger, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Ray Teal (Bouncer), Ralph Sanford (Bouncer), Jack Norton (Drunk), Will Stanton (Drunk), Harry Rose (Drunk), Abigail Adams (Vi) and Al Bridge (Businessman). Other actors in news items and some production charts also not seen in the movie were Jack Kenny, Kit Guard, May McAvoy, Rose Langdon and Joe Yule.

Soundtrack:

Oh, Dem Golden Slippers!