Untamed (1929 film)

Untamed is a 1929 American PreCode MetroGoldwynMayer dramacomedyromance 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.

An oil prospector, Henry Hank Dowling Lloyd Ingraham, has raised his freespirited daughter, Alice Bingo Dowling Joan Crawford, in the jungle of South America. He asks his friend, Ben Murchison Ernest Torrence, to come work with him on oil wells that have made him rich. Just as Ben arrives with his friend, Howard Presley Holmes Herbert, Hank is killed by a transient oil worker who has designs on Bingo.At a relatively young age, Bingo has now inherited her fathers company and wealth and Ben is appointed her guardian. She calls him and Howard both uncles, though they are not related. She is sassy and without refinement, hitting anyone she disagrees with. Her uncles decide that the wild Bingo should move to New York City, learn proper deportment and enter society. While they are aboard the ocean liner, she meets the young, goodlooking and welleducated charmer Andy McAllister Robert Montgomery. ........

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