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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. Though shot as a silent feature, the film was refitted with some sound elements and released in 1930 as a sound film due to the public apathy to silent films.
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
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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.
Oct 5, 2003 · The film relies upon stereotypes, prejudices and entrenched value systems to define character behaviour – typical of Murnau – and refuses to view either the city or country as havens of domestic or romantic harmony. City Girl shows us characters who are in the world and all that entails.
- Adrian Danks
F.W. Murnau's City Girl follows some similar ideas to his earlier masterpiece Sunrise. It's a simple story about a farm boy who falls in love with a waitress and marries her; before they return to the farm and trouble ensues. As is often the case with this director, the film is beautifully realised.
The film that was released in 1930 was lost in a fire in a Fox storage vault in 1937. Three decades later, when looking through a Fox warehouse in Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art staff found a working cut of City Girl that approximated Murnau’s original silent version. MoMA restored the film and screened it at the New York City museum in 1970.
