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.
Cast
Clark Gable
Blackie Norton
Jeanette MacDonald
Mary Blake
Spencer Tracy
Father Tim Mullin
Jack Holt
Jack Burley
Jessie Ralph
Mrs. Maisie Burley
Ted Healy
Mat
Shirley Ross
Trixie
Margaret Irving
Della Bailey
Harold Huber
'Babe'
Edgar Kennedy
Sheriff
Al Shean
Professor
William Ricciardi
Signor Baldini
Kenneth Harlan
'Chick'
Roger Imhof
'Alaska'
Charles Judels
Tony
Russell Simpson
'Red' Kelly
Bert Roach
Freddie Duane
Warren Hymer
Hazeltine
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Madame Albani (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Picnicker (uncredited)
King Baggot
Earthquake Survivor (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
Salvation Army Nurse (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Burley's Butler Allen (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
Bartender (uncredited)
Nigel De Brulier
Earthquake Survivor (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Fat Man (uncredited)
Tom Dugan
Drunk (uncredited)
John George
Custodian at Blackie Norton's (uncredited)
D.W. Griffith
Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
Bronislau Kaper
Conductor (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
Dealer (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Bartender (uncredited)
John 'Skins' Miller
Man on Stretcher (uncredited)
James Murray
Earthquake Survivor (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Waiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
New Year's Celebrant (uncredited)
Lillian Rich
Nun (uncredited)
William Ripley Dorr
Choir (uncredited)
Jason Robards Sr.
Father (uncredited)
Frank Sheridan
Founders' Club Member (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Soldier (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
Cop (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
New Years Eve Reveler (uncredited)
Rosemary Theby
Earthquake Survivor (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Earthquake Survivor (Uncredited)
Crew
John Hoffman
Sequence Artist
W.S. Van Dyke
Director, Producer
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Writer
Anita Loos
Screenplay
Robert E. Hopkins
Story
Tom Held
Editor
Oliver T. Marsh
Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith
Second Assistant Director
Joseph M. Newman
Assistant Director
Bernard H. Hyman
Producer
John Emerson
Producer
Adrian
Costume Design
Edwin B. Willis
Assistant Art Director
Harry McAfee
Assistant Art Director
Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
Edward Ward
Music
Herbert Stothart
Music
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
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