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