The Wild and the Innocent

The Wild and the Innocent
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byJack Sher
Written bySy Gomberg
Jack Sher
Based onstory by Sy Gomberg
Produced bySy Gomberg
StarringAudie Murphy
Joanne Dru
Gilbert Roland
Jim Backus
Sandra Dee
CinematographyHarold Lipstein
Edited byGeorge Gittens
Music byHans J. Salter
Color processEastmancolor
Production
company
Universal-International
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • May 27, 1959 (1959-05-27)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Wild and the Innocent is a 1959 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jack Sher and starring Audie Murphy and Sandra Dee, two inexperienced young people who get into trouble when they visit a town for the very first time. The film was the final Universal-International film shot in CinemaScope.