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City Girl
SEE AND HEAR LIFE IN THE "RAW" WITH THE "CITY GIRL"
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.
- Original title
- City Girl
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 6, 2022 · via TMDB
This is one of those films that you can just sit back and let wash over you... The plot is simple, as are the characterisations involved - but that's what makes it effective. "Lem" (Charles Farrell) is a young man sent by his overbearing father to Chicago to sell their annual wheat crop. He frequents a diner where he meets the young waitress "Kate" (Mary Duncan) and the pair are soon an item. Meantime, though, the price of wheat is dropping so he must quickly secure a deal before he and his gal return home to rural Minnesota. His father "Tustine" (David Torrence) is less than impressed with both the deal he got for his crop and with his new daughter-in-law, and a period of unpleasantness culminates in some deliberate and selfish actions by the father as the harvesting is going on, that could spell ruin for everyone. The camera simply loves Farrell and Duncan - and the accompanying score helps them to convey their love and frustrations expertly. The ending is maybe just a little twee - but it does offer some redemption that illustrates how difficult it could be for a father to show affection for his son, and also of the somewhat trivial roles accorded to women at the time - many of whom were far more competent than their men folks! It is based on Elliott Lester's play 'The Mud Turtle", which like this film, I suspect, doesn't get out much nowadays - but this flows smoothly and effortlessly and really is quite a joy to watch.
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Charles Farrell
Lem Tustine
Mary Duncan
Kate
David Torrence
Lem's Father
Edith Yorke
Lem's Mother
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Reaper
Anne Shirley
Marie Tustine
Tom McGuire
Matey
Richard Alexander
Mac
Ed Brady
Reaper
Roscoe Ates
Reaper
Marjorie Beebe
Waitress (uncredited)
Eddie Boland
Reaper (uncredited)
Mark Hamilton
Greasy the Reaper (uncredited)
Werner Klingler
Reaper (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Man at Train Station (uncredited)
Ivan Linow
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Arnold Lucy
Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Helen Lynch
Girl on Train (uncredited)
Michael Mark
Man Standing at Cafe (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Reaper (uncredited)
David Rollins
Reaper (uncredited)
Edgar G. Ulmer
Assistant Art Director
F. W. Murnau
Director
Katherine Hilliker
Editor
William Fox
Producer
A.H. Van Buren
Sound Director
mondano
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