Luck of Roaring Camp (1937)

Luck of Roaring Camp (1937)

“Luck of Roaring Camp” is a 1937 Western film directed by  Irvin Willat. The screenplay by Harvey Gates is an adaption of the 1868 short story “Luck of Roaring Camp” by Bret Harte.

Travel back to the rough-and-tumble days of the Gold Rush in this heartfelt 1937 Classic Western, starring Owen Davis Jr., Joan Woodbury, and Charles Brokaw. Directed by Irvin Willat, this emotional frontier tale blends grit and heart, telling the story of redemption in one of the wildest mining towns in the Old West.

Roaring Camp is filled with outlaws, drifters, and hardened gamblers – men living by luck and lawlessness. But everything changes when a mysterious woman arrives, gives birth, and tragically passes away. Left with her orphaned baby, the town’s roughest characters are unexpectedly thrown into the role of caretakers. Naming the child “Luck,” they begin to rediscover their own humanity through this innocent new life.

Cast:

• Owen Davis Jr. – Davy
• Charles Brokaw – Don Oakhurst
• Joan Woodbury – Elsie
• Sheila Bromley – Susan Oakhurst
• Ferris Taylor – Judge Brandt
• Bob Kortman – Yuba Bill
• Charles King – Sandy
• Byron Foulger – Kentuck
• Robert McKenzie – Tuttle