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The Girl of the Golden West (1915)

The Girl of the Golden West poster
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Genre
Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A California saloon girl gets caught in a love triangle with a bandit and a sheriff. The film is an early silent adaptation of a popular stage play.

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What happens

The Girl of the Golden West is a surviving 1915 American Western silent black-and-white film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was based on the 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. Prints of the film survive in the Library of Congress film archive. It was the first of four film adaptations that have been made of the play. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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