Girls Gone Wild (film) explained

Girls Gone Wild
Director:	Lewis Seiler
Producer:	William Fox
Story:	Bertram Millhauser
Starring:	Nick Stuart Sue Carol
Cinematography:	Arthur Edeson Irving Rosenberg
Distributor:	Fox Film Corporation
Runtime:	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]

See also

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

External links

• • • Film poster
• Film still

Notes and References

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. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5670/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Girls Gone Wild
3. Book: White Munden, Kenneth. The American Film Institute Catalog Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921–1930, Part 1. 1997. University of California Press. 0-520-20969-9. 295.
4. News: New York Times . Sue Carol Secretly Wed . November 29, 1929 . 27 .