Driftwood Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 11396

Average Rating: 2.8/4

# of Ratings: 4

Theatrical Release Date: 09/15/1947

Language: English

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Allan Dwan

Actors: Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Natalie Wood, Margaret Hamilton

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Sweet, if Formulaic

JLFM - wrote on 12/23/2012

Driftwood is one of those films that I just wanted to hate from the start. I knew this would be another "classic uplifting film," and I was sure it was going to be disgracefully cheesy. Well, I was right; it's hammy to the core, and does little to change the basic "heartwarming" formula. But no matter how hard I tried, I was eventually pulled in by Driftwood's sweetness and pure innocence.

Recently orphaned nine year old, Jenny Hollingsworth (and her dog, Hollingsworth whom she named after herself) makes her way to a small town in Nevada that has been plagued by the Rocky Mountain Fever. A doctor named Steve Webster temporarily adopts Jenny until someone else can be found to keep her. Steve hopes to leave Jenny with his girlfriend, Susan Moore, but things get off to a bad start when …

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