Frenchie (1950)
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Directors
Louis King
Cast
Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester
The story
Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Pete Lambert, leaving a young girl without a father. For the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originally from Paris, earning her the nickname of Frenchie. Now grown, she makes a fortune running a casino in New Orleans, then returns to Bottleneck to finally try to find her father's killer.
Genres
Western, Western film
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