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Zandy's Bride

Zandy's Bride

6,3 /10 (34 Votes)
1974 EN 97 min

Overview

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

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Release date

19/05/1974

Votes

34

Popularity

0.7

More Like a War Than a Marriage

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Released

Language

EN

Runtime

97 min

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2023-07-15

⭐ 10

Gene Hackman turns in one of his best performances in this intimate western. Hackman is Zandy, a hard and angry rancher who needs a wife to cook the meals and birth him some sons, and sends away for one. The titular bride comes in the form of Hannah (Liv Ullmann), fresh off the stage from Minnesota to the gorgeous coast near Monterey, California. Hannah has lied about her age and Zandy already has it in for her from the beginning. The two are married immediately, and Zandy sexually assaults his new bride that night (this is a very hard "PG" rated film). Zandy's place is filthy, and Hannah does…

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