ida lupino be one of the best screen actress of her generation . if one should doubt it and take one look at deep valley and which be film when she be about 32 year old . ms. lupino transform herself into a much young woman and who make the viewer believe she be a girl in her late teen and or early twenty . jean negulesco have a lot to do with the good work he extract from his player . the film and which be rarely see these day and present u with a dysfunctional family living in an isolated farm in california . libby and the young daughter of the family be see tend to her sick mother who be bedridden while her father doesn not seem to talk to the mother and leave libby in a difficult position . to make matter bad and libby suffers from stutter and from shyness and a she feel trap into duty and not have the same thing other girl and her age and can do . deep valley be a film that present a plausible romance between libby and barry and a convict work on the road construction nearby . also and jeff barker and one of the men from the highway project fall for the young woman beauty . thing become entangled a libby find the escaped man and barry and and they fall in love . the lover be doom from the start and a one realize libby and barry have no chance in be together . what libby feel for barry make her speech problem go away a she regain a confidence she never have . the film be worth a look because of ida lupino . a libby and she make this girl come alive without ever strike a wrong note . dane clark be also quite good a barry and the convict . wayne morris play jeff barker and the man that love libby and but he realize she doesn not care for him . fay bainter and henry hill play the old saul . the film be help by the musical score of max steiner and the black and white cinematography create by ted mccord .