Untamed (1929 Film)
Untamed is a 1929 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama/comedy/romance motion picture starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. Others in the cast include Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, and Lloyd Ingraham.
Directed by Jack Conway, the script was adapted by Sylvia Thalberg and Frank Butler, with dialogue by Willard Mack, from a story by Charles E. Scoggins. Original music was composed by Louis Alter, Nacio Herb Brown and William Axt. Lyrics were written by Arthur Freed and Joe Goodwin. Costumes were designed by Adrian.
Made during MGM's transition from silent to sound movies, Untamed was Crawford's first talkie. It was the first role as a leading man for Montgomery, who made several silents before this film. It was also the first commercially released film to feature an explicit sex scene that caused a slight controversy at the time.
In the opening scene, Crawford dances as she sings the theme song, "Chant of the Jungle," written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, which became a hit in 1929. She and Montgomery sing the Louis Alter and Arthur Freed tune "That Wonderful Something Is Love."
Famous quotes containing the word untamed:
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter’s walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)