The Enchanted Forest (film)

The Enchanted Forest
Directed by Lew Landers
Produced by Jack Schwarz (producer)
Written by John Lebar (story and screenplay)
Lou Brock (producer)
Robert Lee Johnson
Sam Neuman (adaptation)
Starring Edmund Lowe
Brenda Joyce
William Severn
Harry Davenport
Production
company
Release date
  • December 8, 1945 (1945-12-08)
Running time
 78 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Enchanted Forest is a 1945 family film starring Edmund Lowe and Brenda Joyce, also featuring Harry Davenport as a hermit who finds and raises a young boy in a forest. The film and story served as the inspiration for a 1998 music composition/recording, "Enchanted Forest" by Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille. It was filmed in Cinecolor and released by Producers Releasing Corporation.

Plot

A hermit, Uncle John, communicates with animals and cares for the forest. He is at odds with a forester who wants to cut down all the trees, and wants any impediments (like Uncle John and the boy) removed.

The child, Jackie, had been washed downstream after a trainwreck in a storm. The mother, Anne, whose father owns the land, is told that the child must be dead, but she cannot quite believe it. When she visits her father, and walks in to the forest, the boy catches sight of her, and she catches a glimpse of him as well. Through a series of interactions, the mother and child are reunited, the forest is saved, and Uncle John is able to stay.

Cast

Color

The film was photographed in Cinecolor. The incredible unsuspected success of the film led to several major studios filming their own movies in the process.[1]

Location

The film was shot on locations in Humboldt County, California.[2]

References

  1. ↑ p.114 Fernett, Gene Hollywood's Poverty Row 1930-1950 Coral Reef Publications 1973
  2. ↑ Hesseltine, Cassandra. "Complete Filmography of Humboldt County". Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission. Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
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