City Girl (1930) - F. W. Murnau 

Amidst all the boxed sets and restorations going on it seems amazing that this Murnau film (one of only three surviving American films he made) appears to have been completely forgotten. The story was that the studio attempted to convert it midway in production into a sound film leaving much of it awkward and without Janet Gaynor the cast lost some of the luster present in Sunrise. The story has a similar simplistic tone to it but here the city girl is only suspected of being wicked but deep down is a good girl. The cinematography is great even though this transfer isn't fit to feed a cat. It does seem slightly repetitive at times and seems to lack the grander ideas of so many other Murnau films. I sincerely hope Fox or some company gets to work on this picture (along with Haunted Castle) because I barely feel as though I watched the film. The version I saw was also silent so I'm not sure how much of the sound footage exists.