The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)★ 6.3/10

Approved · US · 60 min · October 11, 1945

• Drama

Directed by: Mel Ferrer

Written by: Erna Lazarus, Gene Stratton-Porter

Based on Gene Stratton-Porter's novel and a remake of Columbia's 1934 "The Girl of the Limberlost" and 1939's "Romance of the Limberlost," this one has altered the kinship who-hates-the-girl relationship from an aunt to her mother. This time, Elnora Comstock (Dorinda Clifton) lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock (Ruth Nelson), hates her, blaming her for her father's drowning death in a quagmire on the way home the night she was born. The years-later revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings the mother an attitude adjustment.