Romance of the Limberlost (1938)

6.5/10 • 75 min • Romance Drama

Overview

An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.

Cast

Jean Parker

Laurie

Eric Linden

Wayne

Marjorie Main

Nora

Edward Pawley

Corson

Betty Blythe

Mrs. Parker

Sarah Padden

Sarah

George Cleveland

Nathan

Guy Usher

Judge

Budd Buster

Fair Barker

William Gould

Lawyer

Harry Harvey

Jones

Hooper Atchley

Horace B. Carpenter

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