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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.
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.
- Nancy Kelly
- 105 min
- 20
Nov 1, 1991 · A 1990 romance western based on the true story of China Polly, a Chinese immigrant woman in 1880s Idaho. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, photos and more on IMDb.
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- Romance, Western
- Nancy Kelly
- 1991-11-01
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 14. The real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. ...more.
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.
- Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- 1981
Set in the 1880s, this film chronicles the journey of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a Chinese woman whose financially desperate family sells her as a bride. She is sent to the United States,...
- (43)
- Romance
Nov 8, 1991 · Thousand Pieces Of Gold. Roger Ebert November 08, 1991. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
