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Mail Order Bride (1964)

Mail Order Bride poster
Directed by
Burt Kennedy
Genre
Western film, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An old man tries to tame a reckless young man by arranging for him to marry a woman who answered a mail-order advertisement. The film follows their rocky start and growing connection.

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What happens

Mail Order Bride is a 1964 American Western comedy film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea and Lois Nettleton. The screenplay concerns an old man who pressures the wild son of a dead friend into marrying a mail-order bride in an attempt to settle him down. Burt Kennedy called it " a moneymaking picture—a little picture, but a moneymaker." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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