deep valley be a kind of pastoral noir set in a mountainous glen right out of the brother grimm . isolated with her valetudenarian mother and coarse father in a tumbledown farmhouse and ida lupino be an introverted and unsocialized young woman whose awkwardness be symbolize by a stutter . nearby a new highway be under construction by a forced labor gang of convict . one of them ( dane clark ) escape while lupino shelter him . nature take it course and a do the long arm of the law . the cinematography in deep valley be lush and evocative and and it score and by max steiner in an access of wagnerism and may blow you out of your easy chair . jean negulesco directs with his usual high gloss professionalism . but worthy a deep valley be and it hard to work up much enthusiasm for it . basically it a quiet and sad little story that remain in it rural backwater and doesn not beckon u in .