Okay, now try and follow this:
Indians attack a wagon train. One of the guys on the wagon train blames the leader Silas Jennings because Silas is an adulterer and God is mad. Silas kills said guy. Some old guy tells Silas the sins of the fathers are visited upon their children, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Okay, now it's eighteen years later. Silas' daughter Ruth falls for an Indian. His name is Ronasa. That's important. Remember it for later. Now Ruth is married to another guy. His name is Pete. That's not really important. Pete's away on business a lot and Ruth and Ronasa get down and dirty when he's away. Okay, so Ronasa obeys the elders of his tribe, stops fooling around with Ruth and marries another Indian instead. Ah, but Ruth is pregnant and it didn't come from Pete. She gives birth to a daughter and names her Nasa, just like the Space Agency only Ruth doesn't know about that. She's just naming her daughter after the real father (see that's why the name was important).
Now Nasa, she's a wild child and grows up to be quite the rebel. With the adult Nasa we're finally to Clara Bow's part in the movie. One day Nasa gets mad at Moonglow, a kind part Indian, part Caucasian or as they say in the movie, much to Cher's approval, half-breed (I'm sure that's all he ever heard). So Nasa starts whipping Moonglow. Yes, you read that correctly, she starts 
whipping him. Faux dad Pete is upset by this and sends her to a private school. In Chicago. There she quickly earns a rep.
Faux dad has decided to hook up Nasa with a proper gentleman in Texas named Charlie. He even announces it in the paper. Nasa is not happy about this. Nasa then invites playboy Larry Crosby to the party. Larry's mistress shows up to the party. Her name is Sunny DuLane (that's not important, I just had to tell you that name). Sunny's got another man that she's cheating on Larry with and brings him with her. Sunny, having no capacity for self-reflection whatsoever, gets mad at Larry for being with Nasa. She and Nasa then get into a hair-pulling fight. No, seriously. They do. Larry then proposes to Nasa and she says yes. Once they're married, faux dad won't speak with Nasa.
Larry gets drunk much of the time and gambles. Nasa asks him why he even married her and he says he was just mad at Sunny and wanted to get back at her. Nasa gets mad and goes on a spree of gambling and shopping with Larry's credit. Now Larry's lawyer comes into the picture. He 
tells Nasa that Larry's really sick in New Orleans and she should go see him. When she does Larry goes nuts and tries to rape her. She knocks him out with a stool and then finds out from a doctor that Larry is crazy (that's a technical term). Now she's worried because she's pregnant with his child.
Okay. So, she gives birth two months early but the baby's okay. She's broke now (so is Larry and he's crazy) so she sets up shop in a rundown boarding house. She needs money for medicine for the baby and decides to turn tricks. She gets money for the baby but when she returns she finds out a drunk was in the boarding house, dropped a match, started a fire and the baby died from smoke inhalation.
Moonglow's back! He tells Nasa that her granddad died and she's rich! He left her somewhere around a hundred grand. She divorces loser Larry and goes to New York and puts out an ad for a gigolo (I swear I'm not making this plot up).
Jay Randall is a millionaire's son. He likes Nasa and applies for the job, but doesn't tell her he's rich. Then Jay gets into a fight in a restaurant with some guy who identifies him as a rich brat. Nasa loves seeing him fight and later tells him she knew he was rich all along. Now Jay tells his dad that he wants to marry Nasa. Dad says he's crazy because Nasa has a violent temper and she's uncontrollable. Dad invites her anyway to a dinner party and she and Jay attend. But guess who else shows up? Loser Larry and Sunny the Harlot. Larry says rude things about Nasa's dead baby and another fight erupts between Nasa and Larry. Jay is disillusioned with Nasa and... here it is... it's the moment we've all been waiting for... He calls her "savage!"
So now Nasa is alone and she's drunk. She finds out her mom's ill back in Texas and goes to see her. When mom dies she utter's the name, "Ronasa." Moonglow tells Nasa that Ronasa was an Indian and that he killed himself because he couldn't be with the woman he loved. Nasa puts two and two together and realizes that Ronasa was her father. She takes Moonglow's hand and says she's proud to be a half-breed. The End. *
Whew! I'm out of breath and I wasn't even talking.
And here's what I left out: You see Clara Bows nipples through a sheer dress. You see transvestites. You see a gay bar. You see sex and violence and debauchery and Nasa doesn't even get punished in the end. She's rich and happy.
It was released in November of 1932, 75 years ago. Movies like this wouldn't exist again for decades once the Production Code (later to become known as the Hays Code) started being enforced in 1933. It was a wild ride before it all came screeching to a halt. Movies like Call Her Savage couldn't even get re-releases because post-1933 they were no longer up to code and so couldn't get passed. Too bad. It's not as famous as some other pre-code wonders like Babyface or Ecstasy but well worth a look, if only to see images most people didn't think existed in the movies until the sixties. It's not on video or dvd but it does run on TCM from time to time.
It's racy! It's wildly overplotted! It's SAVAGE! **
*I saw this a while ago and with a plot like this I am indebted to Turner Classic Movies website for refreshing my memory with its very long synopsis - There's simply no other way to summerize this film than in very long fashion. And simply impossible to remember every twist and turn. Thanks TCM.
** I realize this Unseen Images is almost all plot synopsis but that's the point. It's the pre-code plot that separates it, not the direction, writing or acting (although Clara Bow is perfectly suitable in her role).
