Untamed (1929)

Untamed: Directed by Jack Conway. With Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert. When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she meets Andy, wonderful in every way but wealth. He can’t live off her money, he says, as he turns to Marjory. Uncivilized Bingo, who hits anyone she disagrees with, shoots Andy in the arm. Now it’s okay for him to marry her.

“From her first scenes looking bronzed as a Tahitian as she sings and dances on the beach at night, to the porcelain aristocratic beauty she presents later in the film, Joan Crawford shines in a role that she seems born to play. The film combines melodrama and comedy to bizarre contrast, and features a number of choice supporting performances (and accents!) Young and handsome Robert Montgomery plays the object of Crawfordu0026#39;s affection, and such is the level of her love that when she is told that u0026quot;the woods are full of men like himu0026quot;, she replies, u0026quot;take me to the woods.u0026quot; This film also might show her earliest use of a Crawford trademark prop, the revolver.”