The Godless Girl
(1928) American
B&W : Twelve reels / 9010 9328 feet
Directed by Cecil B. De Mille (Cecil B. DeMille)

Cast: Lina Basquette [Judith Craig, the girl], Marie Prevost [Mame, the other girl], George Duryea [Bob Hathaway, the boy], Noah Beery (Sr.) [the brute (the head guard)], Eddie Quillan [Bozo, the ‘goat’], Mary Jane Irving [the victim], Clarence Burton [a guard], Dick Alexander [a guard], Kate Price [matron], Hedwig Reicher [matron], Julia Faye [inmate], Viola Louie [inmate], Emily Barrye [inmate]; Jimmy Aldine, Vivian Bay, Elaine Bennett, Wade Boteler, Betty Boyd, Julia Brown, Archie Burke, Colin Chase, Cameron Coffey, Cecilia De Mille, Jacqueline Dyris, George Ellis, Anielka Elter, James Farley, Larry Fisher, Evelyn Francisco, May Giraci, Grace Gordon, Milton Holmes, William Humphrey, George Irving, Peaches Jackson, Dolores Johnson, Jane Keckley, Nora Kildare, Richard Lapan, Ida McKenzie, Don Marion, Edith May, Mary Mayberry, Collette Merton, Buddy Messinger, Pat Moore, Jack Murphy, Pat Palmer, Janice Peters, Hortense Petra, Gertrude Quality, Rae Randall, Billie Van Avery, Dorothy Wax

Cecil B. DeMille Productions production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Screenplay by Jeanie Macpherson with continuity by Jeanie Macpherson. Art director (art direction by) James Mitchell Leisen (Mitchell Leisen). Costume design by Adrian. Properties by Roy Burns. Technical engineer Paul Sprunck. Assistant director Frank Urson + [Curt Rehfeld]. Photographer (cinematography by) J. Peverell Marley. Additional photography by J.F. Westerberg and Franklin McBride. Titles (intertitles) by Beulah Marie Dix and Jeanie Macpherson. Film editor (edited by) Anne Bauchens. / © 23 August 1928 by C.B. De Mille Productions [LP25553]. Released 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA, with talking sequences (shot by another director, with dialogue by Jeanie Macpherson + [Beulah Marie Dix]), synchronized music and sound effects, utilizing the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system, at 9328 feet [?] on 31 March 1929? / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive, and in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive (Cecil B. DeMille collection) [35mm positive].

Keywords: Atheists - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 17 October 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bohn-Light p. 116 : ClasIm-224 p. C14 : Website-AFI.

Home Video: DVD.