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Old San Francisco (1927) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1927 · 88 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Alan Crosland
- Starring
- Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Angelo Rossitto, Tom Santschi, Josef Swickard
Set against the glittering Barbary Coast of turn‑of‑the‑century San Francisco—once dubbed the Paris of America—the story follows a romance amid the devastation of the 1906 fire. A ruthless landowner tied to the city’s underworld schemes to seize the estate of an elderly Spanish family, threatening love and loyalty.
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