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The Godless Girl is a 1928 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film. However, the UCLA Film and TV Archive restored the film's dialogue scenes that were added during the transition of films from the silent era to the sound era, thereby restoring a film that was one of DeMille's first part-sound efforts.

Plot

This drama features a romance between an atheist girl, and the head of a Christian youth organization. The two are at odds when they are thrown into a reform school, but fall in love. The film ends with a fire that breaks out in the school; after the girl is rescued there is an epilogue in which she apparently has been converted back to Christianity.

The film was very popular in the U.S.S.R. and in Germany, though it was a box office disaster in the US. When released in August 1928 in its 'all-silent' version, it was not a success. DeMille attributed the film’s failure to its already outmoded position in the transition from silent to sound cinema. Nor did it recover more than two-third of its production costs when released in a so-called 'goat gland' version with the addition of a final talkie reel in 1929.

In 2007 a version was released by Photoplay Productions and George Eastman House, in association with the Cecil B deMille Foundation and Film4, restored from Cecil B deMille's own nitrate print, with a new music score by Carl Davis.

Cast

Lina Basquette
Marie Prevost
Tom Keene (as James Duryea)
Noah Beery
Eddie Quillan
Mary Jane Irving
Gertrude Quality
Kate Price
Hedwiga Reicher
Julia Faye
Viola Louie
Emily Barrye
Jacqueline Dyrese
Clarence Burton
Richard Alexander
Jimmy Aldine
Vivian Bay
Elaine Bennett
Wade Boteler
Betty Boyd
Julia Brown
Archie Burke
Colin Chase
Cameron Coffey
Cecilia de Mille
George D. Ellis
Anielka Elter
Jim Farley
Larry Fisher
Evelyn Francisco
Mae Giraci
Grace Gordon
Milton Holmes
William Humphrey
George Irving
Peaches Jackson
Dolores Johnson
Jane Keckley
Patricia Kelly
Nora Kildare
Richard Lapan
Don Marion
Mary Mayberry
Edith May
Ida Mae McKenzie
Collette Merton
Buddy Messinger
Pat Moore
Jack Murphy
Patricia Palmer
Janice Peters
Hortense Petra
Rae Randall
Billie Van Every
Dorothy Wax

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 This drama features a romance between an [[atheist]] girl, and the head of a [[Christian]] youth organization. The two are at odds when they are thrown into a [[reform school]], but fall in love. The film ends with a fire that breaks out in the school; after the girl is rescued there is an [[epilogue]] in which she apparently has been converted back to Christianity.
-The film was very popular in the [[U.S.S.R.]] and in [[Germany]], though it was a [[box office]] disaster in the US. When released in August 1928 in its 'all-silent' version, it was not a success. DeMille attributed the film’s failure to its already outmoded position in the transition from silent to sound cinema. Nor did it recover more than two-third of its production costs when released in a so-called '[[goat gland]]' version with the addition of a final talkie reel in 1929.
+The film was very popular in the [[U.S.S.R.]] and in [[Germany]], though it was a [[box office]] disaster in the US. When released in August 1928 in its 'all-silent' version, it was not a success. DeMille attributed the film’s failure to its already outmoded position in the transition from silent to sound cinema. Nor did it recover more than two-third of its production costs when released in a so-called '[[goat gland (film release)|goat gland]]' version with the addition of a final talkie reel in 1929.
 In 2007 a version was released by [[Photoplay Productions]] and [[George Eastman House]], in association with the Cecil B deMille Foundation and [[Film4]], restored from Cecil B deMille's own nitrate print, with a new music score by [[Carl Davis]].