City Girl (1930 film)

City Girl
City Girl
	Poster art for 1930 sound version of the film
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
Release date	February 16, 1930;
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]

^ ^a ^b French, Phillip (May 21, 2011). "City Girl". The Guardian. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "City Girl. 1930. Directed by F. W. Murnau". Museum of Modern Art. May 27, 2018. Archived from the original on January 18, 2021.

[french-1] French, Phillip (May 21, 2011). "City Girl". The Guardian. Retrieved December 22, 2015.

[moma-2] "City Girl. 1930. Directed by F. W. Murnau". Museum of Modern Art. May 27, 2018. Archived from the original on January 18, 2021.

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