The Wolf Song (1929)

Original title

Wolf Song

Directed by

Lucien Hubbard, Victor Fleming

Genre

silent film, Western film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1840, a man travels west seeking adventure. He joins a group of fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains. In Taos, he meets a beautiful woman from a wealthy Mexican family. They fall in love and elope, but he struggles with his love for her and his urge to keep roaming.

old-fashionedromanticadventurouslightheartedbittersweetearthymoodywhimsical

What happens

Wolf Song is a 1929 American sound part-talkie Western romance film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez. While the film has a few sequences with dialog, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. Based on a story by Harvey Fergusson, the film is about a man who heads out west in 1840 looking for adventure and meets a group of mountain men who take him into the Rocky Mountains to trap beavers and cats. The man meets a beautiful Mexican woman in Taos who comes from a proud and wealthy family. They fall in love and elope, and he becomes torn between his love for her and his desire for travelin'. The film contains a synchronized score and sound effects, as well as some synchronized singing sequences. This Pre-Code film is notable for showing Gary Cooper almost entirely nude as he shaves and washes in a river. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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