MOVIE · 1930

City Girl

DramaRomance90 min

A Chicago waitress falls for a young man from rural Minnesota and marries into his world, hoping for a better life than the city has offered. Charles Farrell is the farmer who brings her home, while Mary Duncan’s newlywed arrives on the farm to a landscape of wheat fields, hard work, and a life far removed from the restaurant floors and crowded streets she knows. Directed by F.W. Murnau, the film turns that city-to-country move into an intimate portrait of a marriage under pressure as romance meets the demands of harvest, family, and everyday survival.