Wild Girl (film)

Wild Girl is a 1932 American pre-Code historical drama western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, and Eugene Pallette.

Joan Bennett is "the eponymous irrepressible tomboy, who bewitches card sharps and escaped murderers in equal measure in the Redwood forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains".

Pre-production began in July, 1932, with members of the Fox company visiting locations in Sequoia National Park.

[9] The primary farm set, built at picnic ground, became a brief tourist attraction while it stood.

[12] "Beautifully photographed and robustly directed adventure set in the West, centering around a backwoods girl, delightfully played by Joan Bennett, and her dealings with several men: a good-hearted gambler, a hypocritical, lecherous politician, a two-faced rancher, and a young stranger..." — Peter Bogdanovich[13]The film was restored by the MoMa in 2015.