Thousand Pieces of Gold

Year: 1990

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: English

Director: Nancy Kelly

RomanceWesternDrama

A testament to human resilience, the film follows Lalu, a poor Chinese girl forced into an arranged marriage in the 1880s. She is instead shipped to an Idaho gold‑mining town, where a saloon owner rechristens her “China Polly” and plans to display her as entertainment. Refusing to become a prostitute, Lalu rebels against that fate and carves out her own path in a hostile, alien landscape.

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