Deep Valley is a 1947 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Ida Lupino, Dane Clark and Wayne Morris.

It was produced and released by Warner Bros. A young woman lives unhappily with her embittered parents in an isolated rural home until an escaped convict changes her dreary existence.

[2] A young woman, Libby Saul, lives with her parents on an isolated farm not far from the California coast.

One of the young men working with the convicts, Jeff Barker, is an engineer, who is fresh out of the Army.

This is the last straw; Libby tells her parents that she will not live like that anymore, and she runs away from home that very night.

With Libby gone, Mrs. Saul is forced to get up from her bed and go downstairs to communicate with her husband for the first time in many years.

Libby and Burnette plan to elope to San Francisco together, but she has to return to the farm to get some clothes and supplies on the way.

Because of Libby's strange behavior, Mrs. Saul begins to suspect that something is wrong and eventually confronts the couple.

[3] The New York Times praised the actors but criticized the plot: “It's just a highly incredible...attempt at tempestuous drama.

He wrote: "A slow paced, b&w, atmospheric melodrama, set in the mountains of northern California, about a farm girl, Libby Saul (Ida Lupino), romanced by an escaped convict, Barry Burnette (Dane Clark)...The interesting part of the film revolves around the conflict Libby faces of running away with the violent fugitive she has fallen madly in love with or to have a secure marriage with the really nice engineer, someone she doesn't love.