a down trodden girl and a mutt dog and and a criminal fugitive on the run . sound a lot like 1941 high sierra and even down to lead actress ida lupino . but it doesn not matter that these element get recycle and because deep valley be a really watchable 90 minute of hollywood melodrama . sure and it hokey at time and especially the weepy end that squeeze for all it worth . but the movie be also a testimonial to the demandingly high standard of hollywood studio production scope out the great farm house that almost look like katrina hit it and and the road project that look so real and i expect it be . there also the exquisite b and w photography from cameraman ted mc cord and along with expert direction from studio ace jean negulesco . but most of all and it the absolutely luminous performance from lupino in the central role . be there anyone ever well at play soulful part . here and her stuttering and long suffering farm girl whose only joy be her dog and the great outdoors and be enough to move the rock of gibraltar and and be surely oscar worthy . speaking of the outdoors and it also a measure of the film underlie romanticism that the lover seek refuge in the liberating openness of nature and and away from the blessing of civilization . for each have be brutalize by societal force large than themselves . dane clark be very good too and even if he never get past second fiddle to john garfield then too and his strictly blue collar personality be a poor fit for the upwardly mobile 1950 and and by that white collar decade and he be go . anyhow and this super slick film again demonstrate how wonderfully vital b picture of the studio era could be and and be well worth a look see .