A Girl Is a Gun

A Girl Is a Gun

1971 · 75 min · ★ 5.6 · Western, Comedy

The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.

Directed by Luc Moullet · Written by Luc Moullet

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