Docks of San Francisco is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Mary Nolan, Jason Robards Sr. and Marjorie Beebe.Pitts p.241 It was originally released by Mayfair Pictures, and later re-released by Commonwealth Pictures in 1948. The film was long considered to be a lost film but is now on YouTube.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Docks of San Francisco
Plot A café waitress becomes a small-time gangster's mistress and a novelist decides to rescue her from the gangster's clutches.
Cast Mary Nolan as Belle Jason Robards Sr. as John Banning Marjorie Beebe as Rose Gillen John Davidson as Vance Max Davidson as Max Ranovich, the Detective Arthur Millett as Police Chief Rafferty Ernie Adams as Cookie Walter James as Phony Café Waiter George Chesebro as Vance's Henchman Hal Price as Vance's Henchman Charles McAvoy as Policeman Frank Meredith as Plainclothesman Paul Panzer as Café Waiter
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Bibliography Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.
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