The Enchanted Forest

Lew Lenders’ drama stars Harry Davenport as Old John, a hermit fighting against loggers for the life of the forest he lives in and cares for. When a freak storm causes the train that young Jackie and his mother Anne are travelling on to crash, Jackie is swept downstream and presumed dead. Rescued and then raised by Old John, Jackie learns life lessons and the importance of nature before by chance being reunited with his mother. And Old John proves his knowledge extends far beyond forest life as he orchestrates a possible romance for Anne., The Enchanted Forest concerns Old John (Harry Davenport), an elderly hermit who lives in a hollowed-out redwood tree, the better to commune with nature. Lost in the forest, young Jackie (Billy Severn) is befriended and protected by kindly Old John. When he’s not busy confounding a group of forest-despoiling woodchoppers, Old John does his best to play matchmaker between Jackie’s widowed mother Anne (Brenda Joyce) and handsome doctor Steve Blaine (Edmund Lowe), who likewise lives in the Enchanted Forest for health reasons., Tale of a hermit whose forest is threatened by lumbermen.