Classic Family Movie I The Enchanted Forest (1945) I Retrospective

A little boy lost in the woods is found and raised by Old John, a hermit, who teaches the boy about life in general and nature in particular.

Film: The Enchanted Forest (1945)
Studio: Producers Releasing Corporation
Director: Lew Landers
Writer: John Lebar, Lou Brock
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, William Severn, Harry Davenport

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[jukesd]

It’s great!!! Thank you:) I just started and already like it:) My great-great grandfather Albert came down from Canada & Alaska through the Pacific NorthWest down to California but he died in Wash. state while working in a logging camp. My Great-Great Grandmother made it down to Los Angeles and started a laundry shop while my Great-Grandfather was only 5 years old.

[thraciangrapes]

Adorable! If only life could be so sweet and simple. I grew up on a farm in the woods like this.

[dianejens]

I saw this show when I was a young child and loved it so much. Last nite I was thinking about this movie and tried to remember the title so I could find it. Thank you for making my dream come true!

[darrenmiller]

I'd never seen that, what a national treasure that movie is. Beautiful movie, I loved it. Perfect for Christmas eve on my own, just wonderful, thank you so much. Merry Christmas and much love from California.

[karenhill]

I can't believe i found this ..or rather it found me ....one day when I was a little girl in Ft Worth, I watched this on the Sunday afternoon movie...it did enchant me ...I loved it it made me cry ...too...I loved the whole thing the darling animals ..Bruno Tippy. ..Blacky. Snoopy that DARLING little boy I was just a little girl myself but thought he was precious ...now yrs later I had a little boy just like this 🤎thank you so much for posting this beautiful movie ....I'm looking at it with a Mother's eyes now....

[ToniHunterOne]

5:30 "Since those fellows cut down all the trees above us, it's changed the climate."

This is a lovely and sad film.

[donnadees]

I carried this with me til an adult, the love of the forest and its beauty. Nice memory.

[shariapplegate]

I saw this one many years ago. Thanks for recording it and sharing.

[janicesmith]

I enjoyed this movie very much — thank you!

[leahtreck]

Aloha, what a great movie. I wish they would start making movies like this again.

[kittybeck]

What a wonderful movie. Never saw this before. A little bit like Green Mansions, living in the forest.

[janellemedveckyulickey]

TY I kind of remember this movie when I was real young.

[duanehughes]

I have looked for this movie for years. Thank you.

[pamflorus]

Thank you for this timeless film, , ,

[stevemcdonald]

This movie was filmed in the Muir Woods in California, a redwood preserve. The character of Old John is cast in the image of John Muir, a poet and naturalist of a time past. It's too bad that the prints of this movie were not put on the best quality film stock. as after about 20 years the rich colors faded to what you see here. It should be worthy of colorizing with the latest digital system, which works very well and isn't as expensive as the earlier versions of the process were. I saw this movie when I was 5 years old and it kicked me into a lifetime of loving Nature and doing my little bit to preserve it. And to think that my father was a lumberman! At least he was opposed to the noxious practice of clear-cutting and not replanting. Even when the timber companies do replant, it becomes a monoculture of Douglas firs. No cedar or hemlock nor any of the other trees and shrubs that make a complete and healthy ecosystem.

[antonioantonio]

Wow that was awesome and wonderful movie and I ever watched.

[bobsanders]

Anything with Harry Davenport has class baked into it. A Poverty Row surprise hit in its day; it's too bad about the color - one wishes they had enough in the budget for Technicolor - but it's a surprisingly sweet-natured little effort. Nicely acted. Valuable also, perhaps, as an early cry for environmentalism.

[juliehamel]

No trees should ever be cut down 🌲🌺🌲🌺🌲🌺🌲

[spmoran]

I cried too when the squirrel died . I look after squirrels. And when the Raven lost her eggs . I look after Ravens and Magpies . And when the dog was shot . I had a nice dog called Spot.

[TheTruthlady]

Well that ended quickly…didn’t even give me a chance to have a good cry. 😅