Film Forum

U.S., 1928
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Starring Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene, Noah Beery Sr.
Recorded orchestral score by Carl Davis
Approx. 116 min. DCP. 

“Lina Basquette as Judy, leader of the Atheist Society, a subversive organization in her high school, is opposed by George Duryea as the captain of the religionists. As the atheists meet one night, the opposing group attacks with vegetables, and a fist fight ensues in which a fifteen-year-old girl is accidentally thrown from a third-floor landing and killed. As a result, the two leaders and ‘Bozo’ Johnson, played by Eddie Quillan, who is accused of aiding in the girl's death, are sent to the reformatory.” – The New York Times

Reviews

“A surprising piece of romantic evangelism is THE GODLESS GIRL. The story, which stretches from ludicrous slapstick through scenes in a burning reformatory, the intensity in feeling of which equals motion-picture depictions of the French Revolution, is punctured with vapid religious admonitions and strange heavenly warnings in the form of crosses burnt into the palms of the heroine.”
– The New York Times