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A saloon girl risks everything for love in this vanished Technicolor Western — literally lost to time.
IMDb
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The Girl of the Golden West (1930)

Pre-Code sassTechnicolor ghostmelodrama queen

Overview

Western

A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.

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Content warning
based on play or musicallost film

Standout Aspects

Acting

Ann Harding's pre-Code fire in a rare surviving still

Direction

Dillon's lost early sound experiments

Best for:Rewatch: For film historians chasing the 2/3rds of lost cinema·Solo: Contemplate what we'll never see
Heads up:Triggers: Native stereotypes common to 1930 Westerns
John Francis Dillon

Director

John Francis Dillon

ReleasedOct 12, 1930
Runtime1h 21m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelmedium
First National Pictures

Top Cast

Ann Harding

Ann Harding

Minnie

James Rennie

James Rennie

Dick Johnson

Harry Bannister

Harry Bannister

Jack Rance

Ben Hendricks Jr.

Ben Hendricks Jr.

Handsome Charlie

J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

Sonora Slim

George Cooper

George Cooper

Trinidad Joe

Johnnie Walker

Johnnie Walker

Nick

Arthur Stone

Arthur Stone

Joe Castro

Arthur Housman

Arthur Housman

Sidney Dick

Fred Warren

Fred Warren

Jack Wallace

Joseph W. Girard

Joseph W. Girard

Ashby

Neola May

Neola May

Wowkle

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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Only fragments survive: the complete soundtrack on Vitaphone discs and roughly 20 minutes of visual material found in 2005. The rest is genuinely gone.

Cultural

David Belasco's 1905 play spawned five film adaptations, an opera by Puccini, and this — the only Technicolor version, now mostly lost to nitrate decomposition and studio neglect.

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