Le repaire du forçat

Original title: Deep Valley

1947
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1h 44m

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6.8/10

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Dane Clark, Ida Lupino, and Wayne Morris in Le repaire du forçat (1947)

A farm girl falls in-love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site and sets-out to help him when he escapes.

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A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Convict
(uncredited)

Leonard Bremen

Convict
(uncredited)

Clancy Cooper

Guard
(uncredited)

Eddie Dunn

Posseman
(uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

Deputy
(uncredited)

Ross Ford

Convict
(uncredited)

William Haade

Guard
(uncredited)

Douglas Kennedy

Guard
(uncredited)

Bob Lowell

Convict
(uncredited)

Ian MacDonald

Blast Foreman
(uncredited)

Rory Mallinson

Foreman
(uncredited)

Jack Mower

Supervisor
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Trivia
Unhappy with her situation at Warners, Ida Lupino turned down a contract extension after this movie and ended her association with the studio.

Goofs
When the landslide occurs, the kitchen shakes violently (through camera motion). But as Libby runs through the house, the rest of the house isn't shaking at all.

Quotes
Cliff Saul: You'd rather spend your time wandering around the woods like a wild Indian. Minnehaha.
Libby Saul: I like the woods. They're quiet... peaceful.
Cliff Saul: They are, are they? Not to me, they ain't. They're just so much stove wood.

Connections
Referenced in Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2019)

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Featured review

6/10

If you go down to the woods today

Ida Lupino (Libby) plays the socially isolated daughter of Henry Hull (Cliff) and Fay Bainter (Ellie). They live in the middle of the nowhere and Lupino is the glue that keeps the family together as her parents don't speak to each other and live on separate floors. She acts as a go-between. One day, after wandering through the woods, which is her only enjoyment in life, she stumbles across some convicts who are building a road. One of them, Dane Clark (Barry) takes her fancy. Can these two misfits get together? Wayne Morris (Jeff) also takes a shine to Lupino and her father wants to encourage this relationship. Lupino has other ideas.

The cast are good with the central performance of Lupino leading things along as she develops a relationship with Clark and we see her change into a happy girl. However, this is ultimately an unhappy story that you will probably be able to predict. It does provide tense moments, though. Personally, it was too obvious for me and I would have preferred a different ending. It's still worth keeping onto.