An unworldly young girl (Debbie Reynolds) living in the Louisiana bayou with her grandfather (Walter Brennan) rescues a young man (Leslie Nielsen) after his plane crashes in the bayou and nurses him back to health. After the grandfather is sent to jail for making moonshine liquor, she goes to live with Nielsen's eccentric family in their mansion where she dispenses homespun homilies and common sense. A departure from the lush melodramas he usually produced, producer Ross Hunter and director Joseph Pevney whipped up a fluffy slice of movie cornbread and depending on your appetite for corn, you may or may not find it tasty. Reynolds is near irresistible in the title role and her rendering of the title song (an Oscar nominated song and a big chart hit for her) is lovely. The Universal backlot stands in for the Louisiana bayous but cinematographer Arthur E. Arling somehow manages to almost make it real. The delicate score is by Frank Skinner. With Fay Wray, Mala Powers, Mildred Natwick, Sidney Blackmer and Louise Beavers.
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