The San Francisco Story (1952)

Regisseur:

Robert Parrish

Drehbuchautoren:

Richard Summers (story)
D.D. Beauchamp (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

17. Mai 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Werbezeile:

When Frisco Was A Brawling, Sprawling Hill-City Of Sin!

Plot:

In the 1850s San Francisco newspaper editor Jim Martin seeks the help of wealthy miner Rick Nelson in ousting crooked politician Andrew Cain...

Plot Keywords:

Shot Gun | Bartender | Politics | Politician | Cigar Smoking

Nutzerkommentare:

Fifties production line western has it's moments.

Besetzung

Joel McCrea	...	Rick Nelson
Yvonne De Carlo	...	Adelaide McCall
Sidney Blackmer	...	Andrew Cain
Richard Erdman	...	Shorty
Florence Bates	...	Sadie
Onslow Stevens	...	Captain Jim Martin
John Raven	...	Lessing
O.Z. Whitehead	...	Alfey
Ralph Dumke	...	Winfield Holbert (as Ralph E. Dumke)
Robert Foulk	...	Thompson
Lane Chandler	...	Morton
Trevor Bardette	...	Miner
John Doucette	...	Slade
Peter Virgo	...	Meyers
Frank Hagney	...	Palmer

Alternativ:

Menschenjagd in San Francisco (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

80 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Altersfreigabe:

West Germany:16 (nf) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Firma:

Fidelity-Vogue Pictures Inc.

Fifties production line western has it's moments.

Joel McCrea had made these his home ground and this independent effort, picked up by Warners, was pushed along by the amiable Robert Parrish who obviously found some elements more involving than others.

The dialogs between McCrea and Yvonne De Carlo, in her spotless Fifties outfits, are lifeless and often filmed against back projection. However when Tor Johnson opens the hatch to Florence Bates' waterfront dive bar with a back room full of drunken sailors that she's sold to shanghai-ing captains, thing pick up. The scenes are played for comedy and the smoke filled, low roof ship's hold decor is striking.

Easy to get nostalgic for a time when these came two a time in neighborhood theaters.