History Film / CallHerSavage

* MaritalRapeLicense: In the grossest scene in the movie, Nasa goes to visit her husband Larry, whom she hasn't seen in months, and who is supposedly dying. He tries to rape her, citing the License. She has to hit him over the head with a piece of furniture. It turns out that while Larry was suffering a mental breakdown, he wasn't dying at all, and later he's completely recovered. (His illness is implied to be an attack of syphillis.)

* TheReveal: Fate deals her some cruel hands, but Nasa's fiery temper and lack of impulse control makes some of her own problems, like how she keeps getting into fights in public, or when she impulsively marries Larry, or when she starts a brawl at the Randall dinner. Nasa wonders on a couple of occasions why she can't fit in and be happy in high society. The really, really racist ending provides the answer--Pete Springer wasn't her father, she is actually the love child of Ruth and Ronasa the Indian. The implication, of course, being that her fiery temper is from her "savage" blood, and her unhappiness is from trying to fit into fancy white society instead of her true "place".

''Call Her Savage'' is a 1932 {{Melodrama}} {{Tearjerker}} film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Creator/ClaraBow in her next-to-last film role.

* TheReveal: Fate deals her some cruel hands, but Nasa's fiery temper and lack of impulse control makes some of her own problems, like how she keeps getting into fights in public, or when she impulsively marries Larry, or when she starts a brawl at the Randall dinner. Nasa wonders on a couple of occasions why she can't fit in and be happy in high society. The really, really racist ending provides the answer--Pete Springer wasn't her father, she is actually the love child of Ruth and Ronasa the Indian. The implication, of course, being that her fiery temper is from her blood, and her unhappiness is from not being in her "place" but instead being in fancy white society.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination / MixedAncestry: Moonglow says that he is a half-breed, and he knows his place, while Nasa is white and is thus free to do what she wants. And in the last, very racist scene, MixedAncestry is presented as the cause of Nasa's unhappiness (see TheReveal below).

* WritersCannotDoMath: In the opening scene, Ruth looks like she might be seven years old. Somehow, an 18-year TimeSkip is enough for Ruth to have her own daughter that is old enough to go off to college.
* YourCheatingHeart: In the opening scene Nasa's grandfather is carrying on with another woman in the wagon train while his wife rides ahead. Larry Crosby walks out on Nasa ''on their wedding night''. Nasa's mother, for her part, had a long-term afair with Ronasa, which becomes important at the end.

''Call Her Savage'' is a 1932 {{Melodrama}} {{Tearjerker}} film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Clara Bow in her next-to-last film role.

Bow is Nasa Springer, granddaughter of a rich Texas railroad magnate. Her mother Ruth is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage to Pete Springer, who cares more about business than her, and as a consequence Ruth is having a long-term love affair with Ronasa, a local Native American. Nasa is a wild child, who can't be tamed by her stern father, and seems to only listen to Moonglow, a local "half-breed". Her father sends her off to a women's college in Chicago, with hopes of civilizing her; when this fails he attempts an ArrangedMarriage with an affectionate but dull young blue blood whose family ties would help the Springer business. She refuses, and instead marries playboy Larry Crosby, only to find that he doesn't love her at all, and only married her to spite his cheating girlfriend.

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''Call Her Savage'' is a 1932 {{Melodrama}} {{Tearjerker}} film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Clara Bow in her next-to-last film role. Bow is Nasa Springer, granddaughter of a rich Texas railroad magnate. Her mother Ruth is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage to Pete Springer, who cares more about business than her, and as a consequence Ruth is having a long-term love affair with Ronasa, a local Native American. Nasa is a wild child, who can't be tamed by her stern father, and seems to only listen to Moonglow, a local "half-breed". Her father sends her off to a women's college in Chicago, with hopes of civilizing her; when this fails he attempts an ArrangedMarriage with an affectionate but dull young blue blood whose family ties would help the Springer business. She refuses, and instead marries playboy Larry Crosby, only to find that he doesn't love her at all, and only married her to spite his cheating girlfriend.

'''''Call Her Savage''''' is a 1932 {{Melodrama}} {{Tearjerker}} film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Clara Bow in her next-to-last film role. Bow is Nasa Springer, granddaughter of a rich Texas railroad magnate. Her mother Ruth is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage to Pete Springer, who cares more about business than her, and as a consequence Ruth is having a long-term love affair with Ronasa, a local Native American. Nasa is a wild child, who can't be tamed by her stern father, and seems to only listen to Moonglow, a local "half-breed". Her father sends her off to a women's college in Chicago, with hopes of civilizing her; when this fails he attempts an ArrangedMarriage with an affectionate but dull young blue blood whose family ties would help the Springer business. She refuses, and instead marries playboy Larry Crosby, only to find that he doesn't love her at all, and only married her to spite his cheating girlfriend.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination / MixedAncestry: Moonglow says that he is a half-breed, and he knows his place, while Nasa is white and is thus free to do what she wants. And in the last, very racist scene, MixedAncestry is presented as the cause of Nasa's unhappiness (see TheReveal above).

* MaritalRapeLicense: In the grossest scene in the movie, Nasa goes to visit her husband Larry, whom she hasn't seen in months, and who is supposedly dying. He tries to rape her, citing the License. She has to hit him over the head with a piece of furniture. It turns out that while Larry was suffering a mental breakdown, he wasn't dying at all, and later he's completely recovered.

''Call Her Savage'' was the first film in a two-picture deal for Bow with Fox, after she'd retired from the movie business after a nervous breakdown. This film and her next, ''Hoop-La'', met with mixed critical receptions, but Bow's performances, especially this one, impressed everyone in Hollywood. She got contract offers from almost every studio in Hollywood but instead retired from the movies for good at the age of 28. Besides Bow, this film is remembered for its appallingly racist ending (see TheReveal below), and for how exploitative and trashy the film was, with sexual content that was shocking even in UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra.