A Girl of the Limberlost

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.

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.

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

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.

Burt Brinkerhoff directed. Annette O'Toole, Heather Fairfield, and Joanna Cassidy star in this delightful film of a 1908 mother and daughter on an Indiana farm. Fairfield is the daughter who goes to high school. She buys books with money from the moths she collects from the Limberlost swamp. Cassidy is the author who pays her for the specimens. O'Toole is the mother withholding affection, because her husband drown in the Limberlost the night Fairfield was born. The photography is evocative of the violin music that the husband played. There is an owl who provides Fairfield with a listener. A homeless boy, Joey, is taken in. Chauncey Leopardi is Fairfield's first high school friend. The film is tops and should be in all family film collections.