City Girl | |
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Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
Written by | Marion Orth Berthold Viertel |
Based on | The Mud Turtle (play) by Elliott Lester |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Charles Farrell Mary Duncan |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Harry H. Caldwell Katherine Hilliker |
Music by | Arthur Kay |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Sound film (Part-Talkie) English Intertitles |
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. While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.[1][2] The film is credited as being the primary inspiration for Terrence Malick's film Days of Heaven (1978).[1][2]