Flame of Barbary Coast
The brawling, colorful story of the queen of hearts and the ace of gamblers... with a shock climax such as the screen has never known!
A colorful romantic adventure set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, where a gambler pursues fortune and love against the backdrop of the Barbary Coast and natural disaster.
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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