Wine of Youth (1924) | Directed by King Vidor - Full Movie

Unlike earlier generations of Marys who used every trickery to secure husbands, Mary the Third questions the validity of marriage in her search for adventure. Unable to decide between quiet, polite Lynn and aggressive Hal, she follows her suitors, along with sweethearts Max and Tish, on an outing, but an attempted seduction sends her home, where she becomes disillusioned by the quarreling of her parents. When they are reconciled, however, she regains her ideals and accepts Lynn.

Wine of Youth is a 1924 American silent comedy drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shortly after the merger which created MGM in April 1924. Vidor did not consider it important enough to mention in his autobiography, although it did advance the careers of three young stars-to-be: Ben Lyon, Eleanor Boardman, and William Haines.

An early “flapper” romance of the Roaring Twenties, Vidor tested the limits of presenting unconventional social behavior among American youth in the Jazz Age which ends with a paean to parental authority.

Directed by: King Vidor
Written by: Carey Wilson
Based on: Wine of Youth by Rachel Crothers
Produced by: King Vidor, Louis B. Mayer
Starring: Eleanor Boardman, William Haines, Creighton Hale, Niles Welch
Cinematography: John J. Mescall
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date: September 15, 1924
Running time: 72 minutes
Country: United States
Language: Silent (English intertitles)