The Girl Who Ran Wild is a 1922 American comedy-drama film directed by Rupert Julian.

It is a black and white silent film released by Universal which is based on the 1863 novella M’liss: An Idyll of Red Mountain by Bret Harte.

[2] The film was written by George C. Hull and features cast such as Gladys Walton (as M’liss), Marc Robbins (“Bummer” Smith), and Vernon Steele (The Schoolmaster).

The little wildcat of the mountains began to earnestly study her textbooks, to wear becoming clothes supplied by her two guardians, and awoke to all that she had been missing before in her solitary existence in her father's shack.

One thing that M'Liss did not have to learn in school was the winsome ways of a maid to win a man.