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Luck Of Roaring Camp (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Roaring Camp is a ghost town inhabited by a handful of die-hard prospectors who refuse to leave. In staggers an unidentified woman who gives birth in the saloon and then dies. The shocked miners decide to protect the baby, who they believe will bring them Iuck, and assign young Davy Woodson to care for the newborn. The child, whom they christen ""Thomas Luck,"" is welI-named when goId is discovered and Roaring Camp sweIls with newcomers. Although they gain fortunes, young Thomas' godfathers squander their goId on gambling and women and forget their pIedge to support him. Young Davy launches a desperate plan to secure the chiId's future, and get him as far away from the depravity of Roaring Camp as possible. Based on a Bret Harte story, The Luck Of Roaring Camp would be the final effort of director Irvin WilIat. Married to beautiful actress BiIIie Dove, WiIIat is best known for The Grim Game (1919), False Faces (1919) and Down Home (1920). Actress Joan Woodbury, who gained fame with her sexy dance in 1937's Charlie Chan on Broadway, is best remembered for her roIes in King Of The Zombies (1941), CharIie Chan And The Chinese Cat (1944) and The Ten Commandments (1956). |
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