City Girl

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Overview

Director F.W. Murnau began City Girl as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his earlier Sunrise. Murnau was frustrated by two elements: Fox's decision to hastily convert the film into a talkie, and his inability to secure the services of Sunrise star Janet Gaynor. The director was forced by the studio to substitute the pretty but untalented Mary Duncan, reportedly because she was the girlfriend of one of the Fox executives. The resulting film is a plodding drama about farmer's son Charles Farrell coming to the Big City, where he falls in love with Duncan, bringing her home to meet the folks. Farrell's dad David Torrence predicts that Duncan will be unfaithful, a prophecy which apparently comes true on a dark and stormy night. Based on Elliot Lester's play +The Mud Turtle, City Girl has a fascinating image or two to its credit, but the film is a distressingly ordinary effort for the otherwise imaginative F.W. Murnau. The 1938 20th Century-Fox film City Girl is not a remake.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/01/2015
UPC:	0024543991151
Original Release:	1930
Rating:	NR
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	54,176

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

David Torrence	Mr. Tustine, Father
Dawn O'Day	Mary Tustine
Charles Farrell	Lem Tustine
Guinn Williams	Peasant
Mary Duncan	Kate
Roscoe Ates	Reaper
Eddie Boland	Actor
Ed Brady	Reaper
Tom McGuire	Matey
Jack Pennick	Reaper
Pat Rooney	Butch
Edith Yorke	Mrs. Tustine
Richard Alexander	Mac
Anne Shirley	Mary Tustine
Mark Hamilton	Actor
Ivan Linow	Actor
Arnold Lucy	Actor
Helen Lynch	Actor
Marjorie Beebe	Actor
Joe Brown	Actor
Harry Grippe	Actor
Werner Klingler	Actor
Harry Leonard	Actor
David Rollins	Actor
William Sundholm	Actor
Arthur Kay	Composer

Technical Credits

Berthold Viertel

Marion Orth

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau	Director
Berthold Viertel	Screenwriter
Marion Orth	Screenwriter