Tockinit not horrible nor great

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Red-Barracuda A young girl Laurie lives a life of misery with her cruel aunt in a small swamp village. The wealthiest man in the area makes a pact with the aunt so that he can take the girl's hand in marriage. This man is a drunken bully and old enough to be her father, so this is a pretty horrendous turn of events. Laurie has to rely on a few good souls to help her escape from this dreadful fate.Romance of the Limberlost is a very enjoyable melodrama. Its success is down to a simple but engaging story with good characterisation and a likable heroine. You really care for her predicament and this is ultimately what makes the film work. It's a feel-good romance at the end of the day. It also has a sweet scene in the forest where Laurie interacts with a selection of wild animals. It's a slightly surreal moment that adds a nice touch of the fantastic to proceedings.This is a very obscure film but it really shouldn't be. It's one of the better poverty row dramas that I have seen and is very accessible. It deserves a wider audience.

MartinHafer This is an unusual story as it's about a young lady who grows up in the poor part of town. They say she lives around the swamp—but oddly, there is no swamp in the film and the folks mostly don't seem like the trashy sort of ill-educated folk they are portrayed as being. The girl in particular has lovely diction and manners—which is odd considering her humble life.Despite being very poor, the young lady (Jean Parker) is sweet and folks just seem to look after her and love her—that is except for her vicious aunt (Marjorie Main) who treats her more like Cinderella than her ward. Late in the film, the aunt tries to force the girl to marry Jed Corson—the meanest and most violent brute of a man. However, just before the wedding, Corson is murdered—and one of her friends is accused of the crime. It's up to a young lawyer who is in love with the lady to prove her friend is innocent.Despite its odd swamp setting and low budget, this film is enjoyable because of some really nice acting—in particular by The only part that I didn't like was the final scene in the courtroom—it just didn't seem realistic and didn't quite fit the rest of the movie. But, it did, however provide a nice 'feel good' ending. A rather schmaltzy film but one I still found very enjoyable…perhaps even because of its great sentimentality.By the way, the copy of this film you can download from the IMDb link is in rough shape. The opening credits are missing and the film skips a bit here and there.

Leslie Howard Adams Laurie (Jean Parker)lives in the Limberlost (swampy timberland found in the American south)with her Aunt Nora (Marjorie Main), who hates the girl because her mother married the man Nora had loved. Laurie's existence is much the same as a bonded servant and she gets no encouragement from her aunt as she tries to overcome her environment by studying. Laurie's only friends are the birds and animals of the forest, and a young boy named Chris (Hollis Jewell), a bound boy to Corson (Edward Pawley), a drunken, coarse bully who is the wealthiest man in the community. Laurie meets and falls in love with Wayne (Eric Linden)whose ambition is to become a lawyer.In the meantime, Corson, a widower, decides he wants to marry again and bargains with Nora to get Laurie as his bride. He promises to support Nora for the rest of her life in style and wealth. Laurie agrees to the forced marriage because Nora threatens to involve her dead mother in a scandal. Chris, secretly in love with Laurie, threatens to kill Corson before he will let him marry Laurie.On the night before the wedding, Chris follows Corson to the barn, with a gun, but the bully disarms him with a whip. Accidentally, Corson falls onto the gun which he has seized from Chris, and is killed.Chris is charged with murder, and Wayne agrees to defend him.

reggietaco "Romance of the Limberlost", according to an article in a magazine review of very old Hollywood forgotten films was said to be "a lost film". I searched among my old 30's films for about 20 minutes and was surprised to find it. I thought I had it but I hadn't seen it for many years.Romance is a campestral tale that takes place in "The Limberlost" a swamp-like area in 1905.However, one never sees anything that even suggest a swamp.It is rather a rural setting, where Jean Parker(Laurie) is an innocent young girl who would rather commune with nature and her friends than work for her aunt,(in what is apparently a white slavery nightmare.)Marjorie Main plays the evil aunt who blackmails her niece with scandalous lies.There is a murder that brings a young boy to trial, his only friend and advocate is Jean Parker who entreats the help of a young lawyer (Eric Linden).This is not your average 1930's story and certainly nothing that one sees today.For that reason it is refreshing, and in its innocence concerning youth and wildlife-it is beautiful and extremely rare.