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 dates
  • March 24, 1929 (1929-03-24)
Running time
60 mins.
Country United States
Language English (sound version)

Girls Gone Wild was a 1929 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

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 November, in a surprise ceremony.[3]

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. 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.

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