Flame of Barbary Coast 1945 123movies

Watch: Flame of Barbary Coast 1945 123movies, Full Movie Online – Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Tito, goes home and PL: learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer. The 1906 quake destroys his place..
Plot: 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.
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A solid Duke vehicle.
The Duke vs. Joseph Schildkraut for the heart of Ann Dvorak and dominance of the San Francisco gambling scene. Wayne is smart and strong, Dvorak is beautiful and unobtainable and Schildkraut is charming and both conniving and dignified. William Frawley provides guidance and laughs as Duke’s mentor, Wolf Wiley. This is a classic love triangle/rivalry, the kind that has sustained literature down through the ages. It’s good old fashioned fun. I wouldn’t call it original but it is well made and fun to watch. I doff my hat especially to Schildkraut for successfully playing a character who is somehow both amoral and principled.

The poor man’s “San Francisco.”
There are obvious parallels between the plot of this Republic film and the previous MGM “San Francisco. Both involve a self-made Barbary coast kingpin, a prime female entertainer, and an ending precipitated by the 1906 earthquake and fire. There are additional films with a very similar plot, but without the catastrophic ending. These include: “Frisco Kid(1935), “Barbary Coast”(1935), “Hello, Frisco, Hello”(1943) , and “Frisco Sal”, released the same year as the present film.

Tito Morell, in the present film, is equivalent to Clark Gable’s ‘Blackie’ in “S.F”, both being self made men, with greater ambitions than their present casino on the Barbary Coast. Ann Dvorak, as Flaxen, is equivalent to the role of Jeanette MacDonald in “S.F.” There is no exact equivalent for John Wayne’s character in “S.F.” although the nob hill crowd, who want to take Jeanette away from Blackie for their opera house is reminiscent of Wayne’s role here in trying to lure Flaxen away from Tito’s casino, to his brand new casino. There is no equivalent in the present film, for Spencer Tracy’s character in “S.F.”.

As in the case of S.F., we can look at the screenplay as being a morality play. Wayne achieved his dream of building a lavish casino by a combination of skill and luck in gambling. But on opening night, God destroyed his dream with a violent earthquake, leaving him penniless. In contrast, rival Tito’s casino survived mostly intact. I think there is symbolic significance in this difference in fortune. It’s saying that Tito and his casino belong here, whereas Wayne belongs back on his Montana cattle ranch, he misses so much. Fortunately for Wayne, Flaxen was agreeable to give up her entertainment lifestyle to become a cattlewoman. She had seemingly vacillated between supporting Tito or Wayne, it being difficult to tell which side she was on until near the end. Tito was rather like Gable in “S.F.”: not really a bad villain.

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Musical, Romance, Western
Director Joseph Kane
Writer Borden Chase, Prescott Chaplin
Actors John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm