The San Francisco Story

The San Francisco Story
Directed by Robert Parrish
Produced by Howard Welsch
Screenplay by D.D. Beauchamp
William Bowers
Based on Vigilante
1949 novel
by Richard Summers
Starring Yvonne de Carlo
Joel McCrea
Music by Paul Dunlap
Emil Newman
Hugo Friedhofer
Cinematography John F. Seitz
Edited by Otto Ludwig
Production
company
Fidelity Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros
Release date
 17 May 1952
Running time
 80 min.
Country United States
Language English

The San Francisco Story is a 1952 film noir in a Western setting directed by Robert Parrish, starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne de Carlo.[1] 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.

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. [2]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Drama: Yvonne De Carlo Will Costar With McCrea Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 12 Sep 1951: B8.
  2. ↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-san-francisco-story-v108804
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