Anna Lucasta is a 1958 American drama film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Philip Yordan.

[1][3] It is a remake of the 1949 film noir version (directed by Irving Rapper and starring Paulette Goddard), which itself was an adaptation of the 1936 stage play.

At the family home in Los Angeles, patriarch Joe Lucasta learns that his friend Otis has sold a farm in Alabama, distributing the proceeds to his children.

Eventually, Frank browbeats Joe into going to Anna's last known whereabouts, a dockside cafe in San Diego, to bring her home.

The cafe is Anna's regular haunt, as she leads a day-to-day existence seducing sailors for meals, drinks and board.

Having expected Rudolph to be a rube, Frank is disappointed to discover that he's a college graduate, unlikely to be fooled by Anna's guise of respectability.

Anna tells him of her ejection from the household - Joe had become angrier than she'd ever seen a person when boys took interest in her (but later it appears he was unnaturally jealous), so he falsely accused her of promiscuity and threw her out.

Danny and Anna head back to San Diego and spend days partying before deciding to move to Brazil.

[4] According to Robert Osborne, the film was unsuccessful at the box office after United Artists gave it little promotion and only a limited release.