Frisco Kid (1935)

Directed by

Lloyd Bacon

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sailor rises to power on the Barbary Coast of 1850s San Francisco but loses the love of a woman. The film shows his climb and fall with brutal violence and a morality that crime does not pay.

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What happens

Frisco Kid is a 1935 western film starring James Cagney and directed by Lloyd Bacon. Set in San Francisco in the 1850s, it traces the rise and fall (and possible redemption) of a sailor who achieves wealth and success on San Francisco's Barbary Coast but is spurned by the woman he loves (Margaret Lindsay). The supporting cast also features Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita, and Barton MacLane. Writing for Turner Classic Movies, Richard Harland Smith observes: "While hewing closely to the crime-shouldn't-pay maxims of the newly minted Production Code, the violence is often disarmingly brutal, with a double hanging late in the film being as disturbing as it is coyly elliptical." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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