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The San Francisco Story

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Director
  
Robert Parrish

Cinematography
  
John F. Seitz

Country
  
United States

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Western

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The San Francisco Story movie poster

Release date
  
17 May 1952

Based on
  
Vigilante 1949 novel  by Aldrich Summers

Writer
  
Richard Summers (novel), D.D. Beauchamp (screenplay)

Music director
  
Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman, Paul Dunlap

Cast
  
Joel McCrea
(Rick Nelson),
Yvonne De Carlo
(Adelaide McCall),
Sidney Blackmer
(Andrew Cain),
Richard Erdman
(Shorty)

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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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Plot summary

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.

Cast

  • Joel McCrea as Rick Nelson
  • Yvonne De Carlo as Adelaide McCall
  • Sidney Blackmer as Andrew Cain
  • Richard Erdman as Shorty
  • Florence Bates as Sadie
  • Onslow Stevens as Capt. Jim Martin
  • John Raven as Lessing
  • O.Z. Whitehead as Alfey
  • Ralph Dumke as Winfield Holbert
  • Robert Foulk as Thompson
  • Lane Chandler as Morton
  • References

    The San Francisco Story Wikipedia
    The San Francisco Story IMDb The San Francisco Story themoviedb.org