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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 · City Girl relies upon the extraordinary framing and masterful manipulation of off-screen space (that suggests a complex world just outside the limits of the frame) characteristic of Murnau’s cinema but shifts toward a more American tone, sensibility and pared-back, starkly realised mise-en-scène.
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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...
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.
- (4.4K)
- Fox Film Corporation
- F. W. Murnau
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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.
