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City Girl (1930 film)

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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

7.9/10
IMDb

Director
  
F. W. Murnau

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

City Girl (1930 film) movie poster
Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Writer
  
Marion Orth
,
Berthold Viertel

Release date
  
February 16, 1930 (1930-02-16)

Based on
  
The Mud Turtle  by Elliott Lester

Music director
  
Christopher Caliendo, Arthur Kay

Screenplay
  
Marion Orth, Berthold Viertel, H.H. Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker

Cast
  
Charles Farrell
(Lem Tustine),
Mary Duncan
(Kate),
David Torrence
(Lem's father),
Edith Yorke
(Lem's mother),
Anne Shirley
(Marie Tustine (as Dawn O'Day)),
Tom McGuire
(Matey)

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A wheat farmer (David Torrence) predicts his sons (Charles Farrell) lover will be unfaithful.

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City Girl is an American 1930 silent film directed by F.W. Murnau. The director wanted the film to be called Our Daily Bread.

A version of the film, with some sound elements, was made alongside the silent version. Today the sound version is lost.

Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. There he meets the waitress Kate. They fall in love and get married before going back to the farm. Kate is accepted by Lem's mother and kid sister but is rejected by his father, who believes she married for the money. (And the fact that Lem didn't get a fair price for the wheat is her fault too). The reapers arrive and quickly they make things even more complicated by making their move on Kate. Lem misunderstands the situation and believes Kate is actually interested. In despair Kate leaves the farm and Lem goes looking for her.

Synopsis

The city girl Kate falls in love with farmer Lem. He takes Kate to his family farm but Kate has trouble being accepted by the family.

Cast

  • Charles Farrell as Lem Tustine
  • Mary Duncan as Kate
  • David Torrence as Mr Tustine
  • Edith Yorke as Mrs Tustine
  • Anne Shirley as Marie Tustine
  • Tom McGuire as Matey
  • Richard Alexander as Mac
  • Pat Rooney as Butch
  • Ed Brady as Reaper
  • Roscoe Ates as Reaper
  • Mark Hamilton as Hungry Reaper
  • Ivan Linow as Taxi Driver
  • Arnold Lucy as Cafe Patron
  • Helen Lynch as Girl On Train
  • Jack Pennick as Reaper
  • Guinn Williams as Reaper

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    City Girl (1930 film) Wikipedia
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