The Female
1959 : 1 hour 34 minutes
This video is only available with Night Flight+.
Director: Julien Duvivier
synopsis
Choosing between her sheepherder husband or a fugitive horse thief sends Isabel Sarli straight to a brothel in "The Female" (1962, 94 min.), an Argentinean cross between Erskine Caldwell and a spaghetti western.
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