San Francisco (1936)
She Fell In Love . . . with the toughest guy on the toughest street in the world!
Genre : Drama, Music, Romance
Runtime : 1H 55M
Director : W.S. Van Dyke
Writer : Anita Loos
Synopsis
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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