THE WOLF SONG (1929) Gary Cooper, Lupe Velez & Louis Wolheim | Western, Drama | B&W | Cinema Gem

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Wolf Song is a 1929 American sound part-talkie Western romance film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez. While the film has a few sequences with dialog, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

Synopsis

Based on a story by Harvey Fergusson, the film is about a man who heads out west in 1840 looking for adventure and meets a group of mountain men who take him into the Rocky Mountains to trap beavers and cats. The man meets a beautiful Mexican woman in Taos who comes from a proud and wealthy family. They fall in love and elope, and he becomes torn between his love for her and his desire for travelin'. The film contains a synchronized score and sound effects, as well as some synchronized singing sequences. This Pre-Code film is notable for showing Gary Cooper almost entirely nude as he shaves and washes in a river.

Sam Lash (Gary Cooper) is a fur trapper with a randy reputation when it comes to women. But when Sam meets tempestuous Mexican damsel Lola Salazar (Velez), he falls deeply in love for the first time in his life. Lola's aristocratic father Don Solomon (Michael Vavitch) disapproves of the romance, forcing Sam to kidnap the girl and high-tail it to the mountains. After a brief period of marital contentment, Sam gets restless and leaves Lola, preferring the company of his trapper pals Gullion (Louis Wolheim) and Rube (Constantin Romanoff). But he relents and returns to his bride—making short work of his bitter enemy, Indian leader Black Wolf (George Rigas).

Cast & Crew

Gary Cooper as Sam Lash
Lupe Vélez as Lola Salazar
Louis Wolheim as Gullion
Constantine Romanoff as Rube Thatcher
Michael Vavitch as Don Solomon Salazar
Ann Brody as Duenna
Russ Columbo as Ambrosio Guiterrez
Augustina López as Louisa
George Regas as Black Wolf
Leone Lane as Dance hall girl

Directed by: Victor Fleming
Written by: Keene Thompson, John Farrow, Julian Johnson (intertitles)
Story by: Harvey Fergusson
Produced by: B.P. Fineman, Lucien Hubbard
Cinematography: Allen Siegler
Edited by: Eda Warren
Music by: Max Bergunker, Gerard Carbonara
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: March 30, 1929
Running Time: 93 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: Sound (Part-Talkie), English Intertitles