That Royle Girl

That Royle Girl

"That Royle Girl" is a 1925 film from Paramount Pictures, directed by D.W. Griffith. The film focused on a poor young woman from the Chicago, Illinois, slums (played by Carol Dempster) who singlehandedly saves a jazz bandleader (Harrison Ford after he is improperly convicted and sentenced to death for murder. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ltcNWzVEaEUC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=%22that+royle+girl%22&source=web&ots=YLgveE_DeR&sig=t03pe_tRL5DKPueBhJ9wl5oihek&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result “American Film Cycles” by Larry Langman, Google Books] ]

Griffith shot "That Royle Girl" on locations across Chicago. The film’s climactic sequence, a devastating tornado, was filmed on a football field at Paramount’s Astoria studios in Queens, New York, where a fully built village. Griffith used the power of 24 airplane propellers to recreate the wreckage and ruin of the tornado’s fury. While the production was underway, Griffith added W.C. Fields to the cast for a comedy relief supporting role as the heroine’s inebriated stepfather. [Fields, Ronald J. “W.C. Fields: A Life on Film,” pages 31-33. St. Martin’s Press, 1984. ISBN:0-312-85312-2]

No print of "That Royle Girl" is known to exist in any archive or private collection. In 1980, the American Film Institute included this title among its list of “Ten Most Wanted” lost films of all time. [Thomson, Frank. “Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared,” page xiv. Citadel Press, 1996. ISBN:0-8065-1604-6]

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* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016420/ "That Royle Girl" in the Internet Movie Database]


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