i love this movie and i enjoy the beautiful scenery and the wonderful story of a girl journey to find her father and and lot of suspense and fun . i wonder what ever happen to meredith salenger who play the title role . lanie kazan be evil a the landlady and i enjoy her performance . i love the dog who play a wolf too . favorite part be the train ride and the journey in the wood . spoiler only part i dislike even though they be realistically portray be the orphanage even though im sure thats the way it be back then for orphan . treat meanly but they at least could have listen to her when she say she wasnt an orphan . and also for the father to just leave his kid behind with the landlady who obviously be a rather loose woman . he didnt have time to watch the kid when he be around a she be always play hooky or sneak into movie theatre and and although during the depression and you do what you do to survive but still he should have consider her welfare more than just to leave her like that and he didnt even say goodbye to her at the beginning of the movie when he leave . course the writer must have work this to make you feel sorry for her even more and sympathetic .