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Girl of the Golden West (1942)

Girl of the Golden West poster
Original title
Una signora dell'ovest
Directed by
Carl Koch
Genre
drama film, Western film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A dramatic western set in the Italian countryside, it follows a woman caught between men in a rough frontier setting. The story is based on a novel and evokes a romanticized vision of the American West.

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What happens

Girl of the Golden West (Italian: Una signora dell'ovest) is a 1942 Italian western film directed by Carl Koch and starring Michel Simon, Isa Pola and Rossano Brazzi. It is based on the 1936 novel, La Dame de l'Ouest, by Pierre Benoit. It was made at the Scalera Studios in Rome, and on location in Lazio countryside. The film's title alludes to the opera The Girl of the Golden West by Giacomo Puccini, but is not an adaptation. It was one of only a handful of Westerns to be made during the silent and Fascist eras, in a genre for which Italy later became famous. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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