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  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. The real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery.

  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Nov 8, 1991 · The film is based on the little-known fact that years after slavery was abolished in America, Asians were still held in involuntary servitude - sometimes by their own people. Inspired by true stories, the movie is angry and impassioned, but it is also, somewhat surprisingly, a romance.

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  8. Jan 28, 2020 · After its theatrical release, Thousand Pieces of Gold aired on the PBS American Playhouse series, the UK’s Film Four and around the world. It won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of...

    • 2 min
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    • Kino Lorber
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