Girls Gone Wild (film)

Girls Gone Wild
Directed by	Lewis Seiler
Produced by	William Fox
Written by	Beulah Marie Dix; Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles)
Story by	Bertram Millhauser
Starring	Nick Stuart; Sue Carol
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson; Irving Rosenberg
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	March 24, 1929;
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

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

The film is considered lost .[2]

Release

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]

References

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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[1] 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 "

[2] The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Girls Gone Wild

[white-3] 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.

[4] "Sue Carol Secretly Wed". New York Times. November 29, 1929. p. 27.