The San Francisco Story
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Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 17 May 1952 Based on Vigilante1949 novel by Aldrich Summers Writer Richard Summers (novel), D.D. Beauchamp (screenplay) Cast (Rick Nelson), (Adelaide McCall), (Andrew Cain), (Shorty) Similar movies Yvonne De Carlo and Joel McCrea appear in The San Francisco Story and Border River | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The San Francisco Story is a 1952 film noir in a Western setting directed by Robert Parrish, starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne de Carlo. The rough and tumble Barbary Coast of San Francisco is recreated with attention to detail, including Florence Bates as a saloon keeper Shanghaiing the unwary. Noir elements include lots of shadows, discordant musical score, snappy dialogue, a disabused hero who resists the good fight, and a femme fatale. A schematic but insightful rendering of political corruption, the film is essentially about standing up to bullies.
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Law in San Francisco in 1856 is an ideal struggling to be established. Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) is a loner with his own code of ethics, now a miner visiting his old stomping ground. He meets raven-haired beauty Adelaide McCall (Yvonne De Carlo), who's in the buggy of corrupt political power broker Andrew Cain (Sidney Blackmer). Newspaper editor Jim "Captain" Martin (Onslow Stevens) begs his old friend Rick to rejoin his peace-keeping Vigilantes to put an end to Cain's reign of thuggery. Rick knows how easy it is to buy a judge, so he settles matters his way.
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