Part fairy tale romance, part road gang movie, "Deep Valley" stars Ida Lupino (young and fetching) as Libby, a quiet girl living a sheltered existence with her unhappily married parents in a cabin deep in the woods. While off exploring one day she spies a road gang working nearby and can't take her eyes off the group's troublemaker, a stubborn con played by Dane Clark. Sensing an opportunity to experience something new, she helps him when he tries to escape. Lupino is lovely and fragile, Clark is all grit, grime, and determination, and the scenes of the men toiling away in the sun may be enough to make you want to mop your own brow once or twice. The cinematography is wonderful, too. As Libby's mother says of their remote surroundings, there's "no way to get in, no way to get out"; part of the excitement stems from seeing if Libby can get out. Not a great movie, but certainly watchable. See it.
Review of Deep Valley
