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Girls Gone Wild (film)

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Girls Gone Wild
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Directed byLewis Seiler
Written byBeulah Marie Dix
Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles)
Story byBertram Millhauser
Produced byWilliam Fox
StarringNick Stuart
Sue Carol
CinematographyArthur Edeson
Irving Rosenberg
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 24, 1929 (1929-03-24)
Running time
60 mins.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish (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

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Release

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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

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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

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b 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
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