Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. Nob Hill Socialite Jack Burley and Maestro Baldini of the Tivoli Opera House see her singing and offer her a chance to do opera, but Blackie has her under a two-year contract which she sorrowfully stands by. Later, when he makes up posters featuring Mary in tights, she does lea... (Full plot summary below)
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Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. Nob Hill Socialite Jack Burley and Maestro Baldini of the Tivoli Opera House see her singing and offer her a chance to do opera, but Blackie has her under a two-year contract which she sorrowfully stands by. Later, when he makes up posters featuring Mary in tights, she does leave for the Tivoli. Blackie gets an injunction against Burley, but knocks out the process server when he hears Mary's performance as Marguerite in "Faust." She proposes marriage to him and she agrees to go back to the Paradise as his kind of singer, but Blackie's childhood chum Father Tim intervenes. After Blackie slugs the priest, Mary leaves. She is soon the star of the Tivoli and Blackie's place is closed down. She sings a rousing "San Francisco" on behalf of the Paradise at the annual "Chicken Ball" and wins the $10,000 prize which Blackie throws to the floor. As she storms out of the hall, a terrible rumble betokens the famous San Francisco earthquake. Buildings collapse, streets split wide open, the city burns, the army dynamites whole sections of town. After staggering around in a stupor, Blackie finds Father Tim and the two of them find Mary at a Salvation Army camp. Backed by hundreds of others, they look out over the ruins which are gradually replaced by the shining new city with a reprise of the title song.
Leave your thoughts about San Francisco.
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio..a big, brawling, boisterous, sentimental, touching, inspiring, thoroughly entertaining motion picture. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonAchieves something that has evaded disaster movies since as long as they've existed: it depicts its disaster in an engrossing, spectacular way, while also making sure that we're not just exulting in mass death. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA huge blockbuster, this MGM melodrama is mostly known for its ten-minute recreation of the 1906 Earthquake, but it also has an emotionally engaging story and is extremely well-acted by Gable, Tracy, and Jeanette MacDonald, who sings the famous song. |
| User ReviewDena Si simply LOVE clark gable's movies, he's so handsome and such a great actor that was never really enjoyed like he should have been. this movie was a sweet movie with nice special effects :) |
| User ReviewLanette SThis has got to be one of Clark Gable's and Jeanette Macdonald's best movies!!!!!!!! |
| User ReviewStan DClark Gable is the nightclub owner, Jeanette McDonald is his singer, and Spencer Tracy is a priest who is Gable's lifelong friend. Great singing from Jeanette, who was a real life opera singer. Towards the end of the movie they are hit by the great earthquake of 1906. |
| User ReviewEric HAs in the '70s, disaster films were all the rage in the '30s, with "Hurricane," "The Rains Came," "In Old Chicago," and, of course, 1936's "San Francisco" which certainly sent the other studios running to destroy anything they could. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeannette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy as three citizens of that beautiful city on April 18, 1906, when the big earthquake struck."San Francisco" is an excellent show which remains eminently watchable today. |
| User ReviewGreg Wthis is one of the few times i'm happy 2b re-writing all these damn reviews but this classy MGM A pix has it all gable/macdonald/tracy kick ass song and "one take" woody directing. |
| User ReviewIrene HMy dad, John I. Hoffman, directed some scenes and created the montage of the earthquake. |
| User ReviewByron BA landmark classic with a fantastic earthquake sequence, especially for the time. The leads are perfect and have great, undeniable chemistry. |
