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A 1991 Western film based on a novel about a Chinese woman sold into prostitution in the American West. The film stars Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun and Michael Paul Chan, and was directed by Nancy Kelly.
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.
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.
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.
Nov 8, 1991 · A 1991 film based on true stories of Chinese women sold into slavery in America. It follows the journey of Lalu, a young woman who resists prostitution and falls in love with a white man.
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...
