City Girl (1930)

Director:

F.W. Murnau

Writers:

H.H. Caldwell (titles)
Katherine Hilliker (titles)

Release Date:

16 February 1930 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. There he meets the waitress Kate...

Plot Keywords:

Farm | Wheat | Waitress | Marital Crisis | Countryside

Cast

Charles Farrell	...	Lem Tustine
Mary Duncan	...	Kate
David Torrence	...	Lem's father
Edith Yorke	...	Lem's mother
Anne Shirley	...	Marie Tustine (as Dawn O'Day)
Tom McGuire	...	Matey
Richard Alexander	...	Mac
Patrick Rooney	...	Butch (as Pat Rooney)
Ed Brady	...	Reaper
Roscoe Ates	...	Reaper
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eddie Boland
Mark Hamilton	...	Hungry reaper
Ivan Linow	...	Taxi driver
Arnold Lucy	...	Cafe patron
Helen Lynch	...	Girl on train
Jack Pennick	...	Reaper
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams	...	Reaper

Also Known As:

Our Daily Bread (USA) (working title)
City Girl (West Germany) (TV title) [de]
Die Frau aus Chicago (Germany) [de]
Il nostro pane quotidiano (Italy) [it]
L'intruse (France) [fr]
La Bru (France) (silent version) [fr]
Unser täglich Brot (Germany) [de]
Unser täglich Brot - Die Frau aus Chicago (Germany) [de]
Unser täglich Brot... (Austria) [de]

Runtime:

77 min | Canada:120 min | USA:90 min (silent version) | West Germany:85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono | Silent

Filming Locations:

Athena, Oregon, USA

Company:

Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Director F.W. Murnau wanted the title of the film to be "Our Daily Bread". After differences with the producers he left, and an assistant director finished it.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Each time when Lem's father, Kate, and Mac storm out of the farmhouse after Kate bandages Mac's hand, the shadow of the screen door moves across the "sky" backdrop in the background.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Days of Heaven (1978)

This movie you really have to watch...

Excellent actors, good music, NO STUPID DIALOGUE and a story I was really interested in. The supporting actors had personality, the bad guy was realistic, for a long time the first movie I really had to see all the way to know the ending (happy end? No? Yes? No?). Perhaps a bit too much "Pathos" in the end, but I didn´t care...