Girls Gone Wild (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Lewis Seiler |
Written by | Beulah Marie Dix Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles) |
Story by | Bertram Millhauser |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Nick Stuart Sue Carol |
Cinematography | Arthur Edeson Irving Rosenberg |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 60 mins. |
Country | United States |
Language | English (sound version) |
Girls Gone Wild was a 1929 pre-Code American melodrama film produced and released by Fox Film Corporation. The film was controversial as an early example of the rising tide of violence and disrespect for the law that would become key themes in the 1930s.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Sue Carol – Babs Holworthy
- Nick Stuart – Buck Brown
- William Russell – Dan Brown
- Roy D'Arcy – Tony Morelli
- Leslie Fenton – Boogs
- Hedda Hopper – Mrs. Holworthy
- John Darrow – Speed Wade
- Matthew Betz – Augie Stern
- Edmund Breese – Judge Elliott
- Minna Redman – Grandma (*Minna Ferry)
- Louis Natheaux – Dilly
- Lumsden Hare – Tom Holworthy
- Fred MacMurray – Extra (Uncredited)
Preservation status
[edit]Release
[edit]Directed by Lewis Seiler, the film was released in sound and silent versions. The film starred Nick Stuart and Sue Carol,[3] an up-and-coming young film duo being molded by Fox in the Janet Gaynor/Charles Farrell tradition. The two would be married later in the year, in November, in a surprise ceremony.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gerald R. Butters Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966 2007 "These motion pictures of the early sound era gave indication to larger trends that would burst forth in the early 1930s.38 The first of these films was the Fox Movietone feature Girls Gone Wild (1929). The film was an early example of the rising tide of violence and disrespect for the law that would become key themes "
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Girls Gone Wild
- ^ White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921–1930, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 295. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ "Sue Carol Secretly Wed". New York Times. November 29, 1929. p. 27.
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