A Girl of the Limberlost

Had to stop watching snd turn it off don't wast your time.

I watched quite a few movies like this when I was a kid, but not this one. I only knew about it from a trailer on a VHS from another WonderWorks production. It seemed like a really interesting story. Now having seen it, many years later and after I've developed a sense about what makes a movie good besides the general story, I think it's OK. The basic story is about a girl who lives in 1908 Indiana on a farm with her widowed mother. However, she wants to continue her education and, consequently, develops a friendship with a more free-spirited woman who helps her along in this regard. Generally speaking, the characters were well-developed and well-performed by the cast. There were a couple of faces I recognized: Annette O'Toole (from Superman III) and an actor who appeared in some Matlock episodes. The plot was kind of predictable, as the girl enters into conflict with her mother and adjusts to interacting with city folk, but it still had an emotional truth despite the familiar trappings. It also had a good pace. Being made for television, the filmmaking quality was decent but unspectacular. Lighting and camera-work were adequate, but it was often hard to see detail in the nighttime/darker scenes. And the score was rather uninvolving, even if it never got in the way. I kind of wish I'd seen this earlier in life, because maybe I would have appreciated it more. Still, it made for a good hour and a half spent

To me, it was a great movie that the whole family can sit and watch without being assaulted by Hollywood's warped morals and lack of decency. Why don't they make more movies like this? The mode of dress in that time and patterns were nice. The woodland scenes were beautiful. Ms Fairfield played an excellent role.

In the mid 50's my favorite Aunt Elnora gave me a copy of "Girl of the Limberlost" for my very own and I still have it. I cannot count the many times I was embraced by the rich story of Elnora Comstock's life in the Limberlost swamp.

I wanted so much more from this movie. The story was crippled by its abbreviation. The photography could have been a story in itself. "The Girl of the Limberlost" is as much a story for today as it was when written.

Please, someone - anyone - redo this and make it America's story. Not every great movie needs a comic book hero and massive explosions to be good. Beautiful quiet human stories can be just as good.

This movie is all about the L narratives that somehow you can't be successful unless you have an education, of course all taught by L professors, who brainwash you into thinking like they do.

Helping the family on the farm is beneath this worldly child, she must be set free to see her true talents. It's a slap in the face to all the people working on farms, providing us the food & dairy we take for granted, & making them all appear to be backwards lowlifes.

Logging is bad so I guess everyone lives in a house made of cob, Hollywood loves bashing the rural way of life & logging is one of the only good paying jobs for rural towns, so they want it ended & force everyone to move to the city.