Girls Gone Wild (film)
1929 film by Lewis Seiler
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Girls Gone Wild is a 1929 pre-Code American Synchronized sound melodrama film produced and released by Fox Film Corporation. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. 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]
Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles)
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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 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
Cast
- Sue Carol as Babs Holworthy
- Nick Stuart as Buck Brown
- William Russell as Dan Brown
- Roy D'Arcy as Tony Morelli
- Leslie Fenton as Boogs
- Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Holworthy
- John Darrow as Speed Wade
- Matthew Betz as Augie Stern
- Edmund Breese as Judge Elliott
- Minna Redman as Grandma (credited as Minna Ferry)
- Louis Natheaux as Dilly
- Lumsden Hare as Tom Holworthy
- Fred MacMurray as Extra (uncredited)
Release
Directed by Lewis Seiler, the film was released in sound and silent versions. The film starred Nick Stuart and Sue Carol,[2] 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 a November 1929 surprise ceremony.[3]
Censorship
Like many American films of the time, Girls Gone Wild was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. In Kansas the film, with a violent plot and an adolescent target audience, was banned by the Board of Review.[1]
