Mexicali Rose (1929 film)
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5.2/10 Letterboxd Genre Drama, Romance Production Columbia Pictures Duration Language English | 6.1/10 IMDb Director Erle C. Kenton Story by Gladys Lehman Cinematography Ted Tetzlaff Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 26, 1929 (1929-12-26) (USA) Writer Norman Houston (dialogue), Norman Houston (screenplay), Gladys Lehman (screenplay), Gladys Lehman (story) Cast Barbara Stanwyck (Mexicali Rose), Sam Hardy (Happy Manning), William Janney (Bob Manning), Louis Natheaux (Joe, the Croupier), Arthur Rankin (Loco, the Halfwit), Harry J. Vejar (Ortiz)Similar movies Around the World in Eighty Days , Maverick , Jamon Jamon , The Great Silence , 3:10 to Yuma , River of No Return | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mexicali rose with barbara stanwyck 1929
Mexicali Rose is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Hardy.
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A silent and sound version are preserved at the Library of Congress.
Plot
"Happy" Manning returns early from a trip to his Mexican casino, the Mina de Oro (Gold Mine), and to his wife Rose, unaware that she has been unfaithful to him with Joe, the croupier. Happy soon finds out and divorces Rose, but he keeps Joe, as Joe is too valuable an employee to lose.
Afterward, he goes to visit his younger brother and ward, Bob, who is the quarterback of his college football team in California. Bob introduces him to his fiancee Marie (an uncredited Dorothy Gulliver). Bob, believing Happy owns a gold mine, promises to spend his honeymoon there.
When Bob does get married, he sends Happy a telegram that he is coming. Happy's friend Ortiz offers to exchange his real gold mine for Happy's casino temporarily. Happy is shocked when Bob introduces his wife: Rose. Happy later tries to buy Rose off, but she turns him down, claiming she genuinely loves Bob. Happy is uncertain if she is lying or not and decides to not tell Bob the truth. However, it soon becomes clear that she has not changed. Happy blocks her secret late-night rendezvous with an admirer and confronts her. She claims that she loves Happy and that she married Bob to get back at him. She then tells him she is going home. The next day, her body is found at the bottom of a cliff.
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References
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