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The Luck of Roaring Camp 1937 59m Western List Reviews After Susan Oakhurst (Sheila Bromley) comes to the mining settlement of Roaring Camp to escape her debts back home, she dies...
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A pregnant woman Sheila Bromley whose husband escaped the hangman's noose arrives in Roaring Camp dying. She gives birth to a baby boy, commends his care to the men of the camp and dies. When a big strike happens afterward he earns the name Luck that the miners bestowed on him.
Luck of Roaring Camp: Directed by Irvin Willat. With Owen Davis Jr., Charles Brokaw, Joan Woodbury, Sheila Bromley. When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings.
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- Drama, Western
- Irvin Willat
- 1937-11-17
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The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise the boy themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen him Thomas Luck.
- Bret Harte
- 1868
Overview. The story takes place in a small struggling mining town located in the foothills of the California mountains at the time of the gold rush. The camp is suffering from a long string of bad luck. With only one woman in their midst, it seems as though the miners have no future. However, the tide turns when a small boy is born.
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