David Torrence
Lem's father
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City Girl is a 1930 American part-talkie sound film directed by F. W. Murnau, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. It is based upon the play "The Mud Turtle" by Elliot Lester.
City Girl: Directed by F.W. Murnau. With Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke. A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
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- Drama, Romance
- F.W. Murnau
- 1930-01-30
Oct 5, 2003 · The last and most American of the three films made by F.W. Murnau in Hollywood, City Girl is a conscious inversion of such earlier works as The Burning Earth (1922) and Sunrise (1927), expressing a curiosity about American individualism and an extraordinary feel for the American landscape.
- Adrian Danks
Brief Synopsis. 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.
Overview. A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges. F. W. Murnau.
City Girl, F.W. Murnau’s subsequent venture after Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, is a portrait of marriage and domestic tension, a contrast of metropolitan and rural lifestyles, told through the eyes of a hopeful farmer’s son and a lonely waitress.
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country. Charles Farrell (who starred in virtually all the Frank Borzage high-art films) plays Lem Tustine, a Minnesota wheat-farmer's son who has been sent to the big city to sell the year's crop.
