Call Her Savage (1932)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

John Francis Dillon

Writers:

Edwin J. Burke (screenplay)
Tiffany Thayer (novel)

Release Date:

27 November 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

The throbbing adventures of a woman who unleashed her heart...so revelatory...so courageous in its searching depiction of the secret things in a woman's life that its burning words left a trail of readers breathless and amazed.

Plot:

Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Drunkenness | Thrown From Horse | Fight | Debutante

Cast

Clara Bow	...	Nasa Springer
Gilbert Roland	...	Moonglow
Thelma Todd	...	Sunny De Lane
Monroe Owsley	...	Lawrence Crosby
Estelle Taylor	...	Ruth Springer
Weldon Heyburn	...	Ronasa
Willard Robertson	...	Pete Springer
Anthony Jowitt	...	Jay Randall
Fred Kohler	...	Silas Jennings
Russell Simpson	...	Old Man in Wagon Train
Margaret Livingston	...	Molly
Carl Stockdale	...	Mort
Dorothy Peterson	...	Silas' Wife

Runtime:

88 min (FMC Library Print) (copyright length)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric System)

Certification:

USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

Company:

Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

According to the documentary The Celluloid Closet (1995) (based on Vito Russo's book of the same name), this was the first Hollywood movie to depict a gay bar.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Before Stonewall (1984)

Soundtrack:

Oh! Susanna

Clara Bow Is Great

Lurid-but-fascinating tale of wild half-breed Texas heiress has everything in it, including whippings, prostitution, extra-marital affairs, a neglected baby, and singing homosexuals. Pre-Code stunner boasts Clara Bow's great talkie comeback (after a bunch of so-so talkies) and she is WONDERFUL as well as Gorgeous. Playing Nasa Springer, Bow gets to whip a snake and Gilbert Roland, have a cat fight with Thelma Todd, beat Monroe Owsley senseless, smash a guitar over a servant's head, and run wild from Texas to Chicago to New York City. Clara Bow is great in this film. Too bad Bow made only one more film after this one (the underrated Hoopla).

Estelle Taylor, Weldon Hayburn, Russell Simpson, Fred Kohler, Dorothy Peterson, Margaret Livingston, Anthony Jowitt, and Mischa Auer co-star.

Great line as the father drives up and says "Why are you whipping that man?" Clara Bow answers, "I'm practicing in case I ever get married." Priceless!