QuoteOriginally posted by falc04@Dec 24 2005, 11:25 AM
If there is, no one seems to know about it. This Columbia picture, along with 'Three Girls Lost', are on the list of John Wayne films that appear lost forever.[snapback]24200[/snapback]
Hi,
I agree, that was my assumption too!!
Girls Demand Excitement is a 1931 film starring
Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, and Marguerite Churchill.
Wayne and Churchill had starred in the widescreen Western epic
The Big Trail the previous year.
The movie was written by Harlan Thompson and directed by Seymour Felix.
User Review
QuoteIf you haven't seen it, don't bother!
by bensonj (New York, NY)
John Wayne is quoted as saying that this was his worst film, and is the Duke ever right! It should be titled "Girls Demand Their Money Back," because there's not an ounce of excitement or anything else. This is a totally inept film in every category, and features that deadly slow dialogue generally only found in films made a year or two earlier: "Say...(pause)...you're not coming to school...here...(long pause)...are you?" Apparently the idea was to make a college sex farce, but there's absolutely no sex and no farce. Sample: Spinster psychology teacher tests kissing in class, using blood pressure meter. She tries it herself and her meter goes way up. Ha, ha. Then the gals challenge the guys to a basketball game. Apparently the idea was that they'd distract the guys with their costumes, but the costumes are so modest that I didn't catch the point until the end of the game. One can see the temptation to theatrically program a rare Wayne film that also stars Virginia Cherrill (and which was released the same week as her classic performance as the blind girl in CITY LIGHTS!), but this isn't just dull, it's just absolutely pathetic and incompetent in every way. It should only be shown in fan-boy living rooms.
GIRLS DEMAND EXCITEMENT
DIRECTED BY SEYMOUR FELIX
FOX FILM CORPORATION
INFORMATION BY IMDb
Plot Summary
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student
whose dislike of women attending college weakens
under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
Full Cast
Virginia Cherrill ... Joan Madison
John Wayne ... Peter Brooks
Marguerite Churchill ... Miriam
Edward J. Nugent ... Tommy
Helen Jerome Eddy ... Gazella Perkins
Terrance Ray ... Sheik Nevins
Martha Sleeper ... Harriet Mundy
William Janney ... Freddie
Ralph Welles ... Simeon
George Irving ... Mr. Madison
Winter Hall ... The Dean
Marion Byron ... Margery
Ray Cooke ... Jimmie (uncredited)
Carter Gibson ... Freshman (uncredited)
Jerry Mandy ... Joe (uncredited)
Addie McPhail ... Sue Street (uncredited)
Emerson Treacy ... Bobby Cruikshank (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Harlan Thompson writer
Cinematography
Charles G. Clarke
Trivia
John Wayne considered this his worst movie.
Print in UCLA http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
Goofs
Unknown
Filming Locations
Unknown
