Deep Valley (MOD)

Deep Valley (MOD)Libby Saul (Ida Lupino) was raised in the Deep Valley. Isolated on a farm with her bitter parents, her only friend a devoted dog, Libby knows loneliness too well. Then a crew of convicts arrives to build a road and Libby is fascinated by the strangers, especially a good looking hothead named Barry (Dane Clark). When Barry escapes his work gang, Libby offers him shelter a gesture of kindness that awakens her timid soul. Lupino gives further proof of

orbiting the tale into the delightful cockamamie of the screwball genre

Director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People

Think of the publicity

Top-billed Lon Chaney essays dual characters (and plays them at various times of their lives) as the sage Grandfather Wu and his grandson

except how to fly for the Marines

whose sound-era careers wouldn't match that of the actress who plays the vampish other woman: Myrna Loy

stows away to America

Carey's colleague David Tao (prolific character great James Hong) is accused of the crime and Carey sets out to prove his innocence

he sets out to master his magical gifts

intelligent woman married to an easygoing Southern politician

When Joe rents a seedy

Ambitious office manager William finally succeeds in setting up shop for himself in the advertising biz thanks to help from copywriter Pat and ideas from housewife Nan