Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.

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Cast

Miriam Hopkins

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge

Edward G. Robinson

Luis Chamalis

Joel McCrea

Jim Carmichael

Walter Brennan

Old Atrocity

Frank Craven

Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb

Brian Donlevy

Knuckles Jacoby

Clyde Cook

Oakie

Harry Carey

Jed Slocum

Matt McHugh

Broncho

Donald Meek

Sawbuck McTavish

Rollo Lloyd

Wigham

David Niven

Cockney Sailor Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)