Mary Duncan.     Frame enlargement: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Charles Farrell [Lem Tustine], Mary Duncan [Kate], David Torrence [J.L. Tustine, Lem’s father], Edith Yorke [Mrs. Tustine], Guinn Williams (Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams) [farmhand]; Dawn O’Day (Anne Shirley) [Mary Tustine], Dick Alexander (Richard Alexander) [Mac], Tom Maguire [Matey], Pat Rooney (Patrick Rooney) [Butch], Roscoe Ates [farmhand], Edward Brady [farmhand], Mark Hamilton [farmhand], Jack Pennick [farmhand], Helen Lynch [flirting woman on train], Ivan Linow [cab driver], Marjorie Beebe [restaurant patron], Joe Brown [restaurant patron], Arnold Lucy [restaurant patron], Eddie Boland, Ed Clay, Harry Gripp, Werner Klingler, Harry Leonard, David Rollins, William Sundholm

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Berthold Viertel and Marion Orth, from the adaptation by Berthold Viertel and Marion Orth of the play The Mud Turtle by Elliott Lester. Art direction by [?] Edgar G. Ulmer? Settings (set design) by Harry Oliver. Costumes (costume design) by Sophie Wachner. Assistant directors William Tummel and Frank Powolny. Photography (cinematography) by Ernest Palmer. Titled (intertitles) by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Edited by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Presented by William Fox. / © 10 January 1930 by Fox Film Corporation [LP984]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Farm scenes were shot outside Pendleton, Oregon. [?] Some references list the length of the silent version at 8217 feet. Murnau was removed from the production before the film’s completion. The latter portion of the film was partially reshot by A.F. ‘Buddy’ Erickson, adding new sound sequences in [?] Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system?, with dialogue by Elliott Lester, and A.H. Van Buren and A.F. ‘Buddy’ Erickson as “stage directors,” with a musical score by Arthur Kay and sound recording by Harold Hobson. The film was then reedited by the studio, and released as City Girl on 16 February 1930. This was thought to have been a lost film, but a print of the silent 1930 rerelease version was rediscovered in the Fox vaults in 1970. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Abuse - Advertising: Billboards - Anger - Animals: Cats, Horses - Apartments - Barometers - Baskets - Bets - Birds: Mechanical - Cages - Children - Clocks - Clothing: Overalls, Stockings - Commodities - Communication: Telegrams - Compacts - Crowds - Dirt roads - Electric fans - Families: Daughters-in-Law, Fathers, Father-son relationships, Husbands, Mothers, Sons, Wives - Farms: Farm equipment, Farmers, Farmhands, Harvests - Fences: Barbed wire - Fights - Flowers - Food: Bread, Sandwiches - Furniture: Chairs (Rocking) - Gates - Handkerchiefs - Handwriting - Hats: Straw - House plants - Injuries - Kisses - Kitchens - Labor: Labor walkouts - Lamps - Lanterns - Lechery - Lunches - Machines (Fortune-telling, Harvesting, Scales, Sewing) - Mailboxes - Makeup - Marriages: Honeymoons, Marriage proposals - Medical: Bandages, First-aid - Mirrors - Money: Coins - Moons - Newspapers: Newspaper boys, Newsstands - Paintings - Picture postcards - Police: Policemen - Railroad tracks - Religion: Praying - Restaurants: Coffee pots, Meal tickets, Menus, Waitresses - Sexual harrassment - Signage - Smoke - Suitcases - Thumbtacks - Tips - Tobacco: Cigarettes - Transportation: Automobiles, Elevated trains, Taxi cabs, Trains (Conductors, Train stations, Train tracks), Wagons - Travel - Umbrellas - USA: Illinois (Chicago), Minnesota, Oregon (Pendleton), Pacific Northwest - Wagers - Wallets - Washboards - Weapons: Guns - Wheat

Listing updated: 31 March 2008.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Everson-American pp. 14, 310w, 326, 328-329, 336; Limbacher-Feature p. 45; Lloyd-Seventy p. 34; LoC-MoPic-2 p. 137; McCaffrey-Guide p. 12; Shipman-Cinema p. 108 : Cinemonkey-16 pp. 15-21, 44; ClasIm-226 p. 41 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.