Girls Gone Wild (film)

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]

Girls Gone Wild
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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
Release date	March 24, 1929 (1929-03-24)
Running time	60 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English (sound version)

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]

Preservation

With no prints of Girls Gone Wild located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

1. Butters, Gerald R. (2007). Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3. "These motion pictures of the early sound era gave indication to larger trends that would burst forth in the early 1930s. 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. 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.
3. "Sue Carol Secretly Wed". New York Times. November 29, 1929. p. 27.
4. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Girls Gone Wild

External links

• Girls Gone Wild at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Film poster
• Still