Frisco Waterfront (1935)
From the Docks to Dictator of a Great State Empire!
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
- Date of release
- 1935-12-03
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley
Casting
- Ben Lyon — Glenn Burton
- Helen Twelvetrees — Alice
- Rod La Rocque — Dan Elliott
- Russell Hopton — Eddie
- James Burke — Corrigan
- Henry Kolker — District Attorney
- Purnell Pratt — Dr. Stevens
- Barbara Pepper — The Blonde Stranger
- Lee Shumway — Foreman
- Norman Houston — Johnson
- John Mack — Juror
Interesting facts
Frisco Waterfront is a 1935 American drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and Joseph Santley and starring Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees and Rod La Rocque.
Production
In April 1935, Republic announced they intended to make a film based on the novel Frisco Waterfront by Norman Houston, based on the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.
Filming started in October 1935. It was the second film Lubin made for Republic.
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