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Thousand Pieces of Gold is a 1991 Western film starring Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun and Michael Paul Chan, and is directed by Nancy Kelly. The film is based on a novel of the same name.
Thousand Pieces of Gold is a 1981 historical novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and based on the life of Polly Bemis, a 19th-century Chinese immigrant woman in the American Old West. In 1991, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.
In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals.
Thousand Pieces of Gold streaming: where to watch online? Currently you are able to watch "Thousand Pieces of Gold" streaming on Kino Film Collection. It is also possible to buy "Thousand Pieces of Gold" on Amazon Video, Apple TV as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Apple TV online.
Nov 8, 1991 · Thousand Pieces Of Gold. 105 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 1991. Roger Ebert. November 8, 1991. 3 min read. For some measure of the progress of women, consider “1000 Pieces of Gold,” set in the 19th century and telling the story of a Chinese woman sold from man to man as if she were property.
Now on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD: https://bit.ly/38oGvLCSet in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold was developed by the Sundance Institute an...
With the sweep of an epic and the intimacy of an art film, Thousand Pieces of Gold is both an exploration of America's perverse magnanimity toward immigrants and a terse, eloquent story of love...
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"THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, is the true story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcomes poverty, footbinding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.
Apr 26, 1991 · In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals.
Feb 25, 2021 · Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize ...
