Girls Gone Wild (film)

Girls Gone Wild is a 1929 pre-Code American Synchronized sound melodrama film produced and released by Fox Film Corporation. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. 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 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles)

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)