The City Gone Wild
Louise Brooks appeared in this released underworld drama, but no complete copy remains to restore the performance.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A Paramount crime drama directed by James Cruze and starring Thomas Meighan and Louise Brooks.
The City Gone Wild was completed and distributed to ordinary audiences in 1927. Like most American silent features, it circulated on vulnerable film stock in an era before systematic preservation, and no complete publicly accessible print is now known.
Existence timeline
The City Gone Wild is completed as a distributable motion picture.
The finished film reaches ordinary cinema audiences.
Known release prints and original elements fail to enter a complete accessible archive.
The Library of Congress documents the severe loss rate of American silent features and the film's survival status.
Archives and researchers still have no complete moving-image copy available.
Why it ended
The released work disappeared as its known distribution copies and original elements failed to survive. No complete moving-image copy is currently known to survive.
Last confirmed trace
Stills, reviews and production documentation survive without a known complete print.
What it left behind
Its loss leaves another gap in the filmography of an actor whose screen legacy was itself rediscovered decades later.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.