Fille de feu

Original title: Call Her Savage

1932
Passed
1h 28m

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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.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.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.

Director
- John Francis Dillon
Writers
- Edwin J. Burke
- Tiffany Thayer
Stars

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7.0/10

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Director
- John Francis Dillon
Writers
- Edwin J. Burke
- Tiffany Thayer
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins total

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Trivia
Prints are rare. A fully restored print does exist, however, and is stored at the Museum of Modern Art.

Goofs
Opening scene depicts wagon train crossing the west, which would have happened in the 1840s -1860s. The title card after this scene says "18 years later in Rollins, Texas". The following scenes shows Nasa being born and, then approximately 20 years later, Nasa riding her horse. Her father observes her whipping Moonglow from his 1930s auto. Therefore, about 40 years have transpired, suggesting the wagon train was crossing the west in 1890. Transcontinental rail travel was common by 1880.

Quotes
Pete Springer: [having seen Nasa and Moonglow] Why were you whipping him?
Nasa Springer: I was practicing in case I ever get married.

Connections
Featured in Before Stonewall (1984)

Soundtracks
Oh! Susanna
(1848) (uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
In the score during the wagon train sequence

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Featured review

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!