Daughter of the West (1949)
Genre : Western
Runtime : 1H 17M
Director : Harold Daniels
Writer : Raymond L. Schrock
Synopsis
A convent-raised woman (Martha Vickers) learns of her American Indian heritage through romance with an educated Navajo (Philip Reed) during the 1880s.
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