Though "Deep Valley" aired as part of TCM's Noir Alley, it's really more moody romantic melodrama than true noir for my taste.
Ida Lupino seems too old for the role she's playing, a young woman bored to sobs on her parents' run down farm who gets the hots for a chain gang fugitive (Dane Clark) who hides out in her barn. This movie goes about where you'd expect it to, but it does have the guts to go for the downer ending.
There's a sweet little side story about the parents who rediscover affection for each other when their daughter becomes too distracted to continue being their go-between.
Even if she's not the right age, Lupino is an appealing actress and makes pretty much anything she's in worth watching, and she and Clark have chemistry together.
Grade: B.
Ida Lupino seems too old for the role she's playing, a young woman bored to sobs on her parents' run down farm who gets the hots for a chain gang fugitive (Dane Clark) who hides out in her barn. This movie goes about where you'd expect it to, but it does have the guts to go for the downer ending.
There's a sweet little side story about the parents who rediscover affection for each other when their daughter becomes too distracted to continue being their go-between.
Even if she's not the right age, Lupino is an appealing actress and makes pretty much anything she's in worth watching, and she and Clark have chemistry together.
Grade: B.