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Director: King Vidor
Cast: Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Wild Oranges © 1923, 2006 Turner Entertainment Co. Package Design © 2010 Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
While sailing along the Georgia coast, a widower (Frank Mayo) not quite over the untimely death of his wife anchors off a small inlet in search of fresh water. There he finds a dilapidated mansion, a beautiful Southern belle (Virginia Valli), her terror-stricken grandfather (Nigel de Brulier) and a homicidal maniac (Charles A. Post) who won’t let anyone leave the mainland alive. Fear and desires run deep in this steamy melodrama from director King Vidor, who shot on actual Florida locations to capture the humidified atmosphere of the source novel. Vidor, whose career began in 1913, went on to make the classics The Big Parade, The Crowd, Hallelujah, Duel in the Sun and The Fountainhead. When he finally retired in 1980, he entered the record books as the longest working director in film history.
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Comments about Wild Oranges (1924) (DVD):
Although this is claimed as filmed in Florida, the original yacht used in much of the footage sails today in San Francisco, and has never left California in her 104 years.
It appears that a good part of the film was shot in the Sacramento delta region, and provides some very interesting views of that area at the time.
from NV on 6/9/2010Comments about Wild Oranges (1924) (DVD):
Great plot/movie for its time. It still drives home the message today.
Too bad the film was not cleaned or utilized a wetgate during the transfer to digital.
from Charlottesville, VA on 6/2/2010Comments about Wild Oranges (1924) (DVD):
A lesser known King Vidor film nevertheless seems less dated and more satisfying than some of his more prestigious productions. A grieving New England widower fleeing guilt and remorse on the high seas finds renewed purpose in his love for the psychologically damaged granddaughter of reclusive southerner on the Georgia coast. But he must first decipher the awful secret that holds them in its grasp, and find a way do defeat the evil that imprisons them. Frank Mayo and Virginia Valli give good, restrained performances for 1924. Authentic atmosphere from location shooting on the southern coast.
