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 the money. (And the fact that Lem didn't get a fair price for the wheat is her fault too). The reapers arrive and quickly they make things even more complicated by making their move on K... (Full plot summary below)
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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 the money. (And the fact that Lem didn't get a fair price for the wheat is her fault too). The reapers arrive and quickly they make things even more complicated by making their move on Kate. Lem misunderstands the situation and believes Kate is actually interested. In despair Kate leaves the farm and Lem goes looking for her.
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| Time OutGeoff AndrewMurnau's final Hollywood film is widely underrated. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's distinguished mostly by the great director's special creative touches in filming. |
| User ReviewTyler POften undeservedly neglected, however, City Girl is one of Murnau's greatest and most poetic films. I just love when the camera jubilantly runs through a sunlit field with it's two leads--one of the great tracking shots of all-time. |
| User ReviewDavid HFriedrich Wilhelm Murnau's last Hollywood Movie is a tragic Love Story between a Farmer Boy and a City Girl Kate is a Waitress who have enough from the City with it's Rush and Enstragment, her hard Work and the brash Attitude of the Men who all want always the same then she meets a civlized Farmer Boy who is nice to her and defent her she goes with him to the Land and marry him and hope for a better Future but on the Land it is even harder than in the City, her Father-in-Law is a Tyrann, against the Marriage and hit her, her Work here is even harder and the Men are even more Brash one want to unhitch her and want to leave with her and inicite the Harvesters to leave the Field while a Storm threathen to destroy the Wheat Harvest but in the End Love wins and it be a Happy End like in many Hollywood Movies great Actors, great Directions, a great Story and a great Soundtrack |
| User ReviewEric BMurnau's minor masterpiece is the yang to Sunrise's yin. |
| User ReviewGareth DIgnore the naysayers, whatever the hell they know about movies. This is magnificent movie making. I rarely use the word 'literally', but this film is literally breathtaking. I loved it from the start with perfect casting and moment-capturing. Great cinematic storytelling. A silent movie to begin anyone's journey into silent movies. Can't rate it highly enough. I laughed. I gasped. I hung on every moment, and, being a silent in the last days before the advent of the dull talkies, there were many of them. Terrific joy in a pure wonder where even the smallest characters have presence. |
| User ReviewMartin TNot as great as Sunrise, but still a pretty good effort from Murnau. The ending is a bit too clichéd for my liking though. For those of you who want to see City Girl, but are frustrated by there not being any VHS or DVD releases of it, the entire film has been posted on YouTube. |
| User ReviewGringoTex JCity Girl was a real eye-opener for me. I always assumed that Murnau's leap from mobile camera in Sunrise to stationary camera in Tabu was necessitated by extreme remote location shooting, but City Girl shows Murnau already abandoning the dolly tracks. I can only recall two non-diegetic dollies: a brief one in the city and the extraordinary one in the run through the wheat field. Every other camera movement is associated with moving farming equipment. The result is a decoupage that is strikingly contemporary. It appears to me to be Murnau's first "sound" film. He could have recorded dialogue without changing a single shot, and it still would have worked. Thematically, it's an interesting inversion of the City/Country dichotomy in Sunrise. The city brings morality to the country rather than treachery. And it's the country that supplies the lovers' playground instead of the city. |
| User ReviewDavid SA mostly forgotten Murnau film, but it shouldn't be. It's really good, and I watched it on blu-ray and it looked AMAZING! I'm really in shock as to how good these old silent movies can look in HD. |
| User ReviewJohn AMurnau takes a slightly implausible story to heights it would not have reached with another director. Two passages of the film stand out for their beauty and poetry: the harvest scenes and the return home after Lem's wedding. Murnau focuses on the concrete elements simply, allowing the power of these significant moments in these people's lives to shine without covering them up with dialogue and plot. Not to the level of Sunrise (what is?), City Girl remains a fine film in its own right. |
