Critical Reception
Although considerable effort had been made to produce a faithful and convincing rendering of the book, the film was not reviewed kindly by critics at the time and was not a commercial success.
Critics were not kind to the film, impressed neither by its lush widescreen visuals nor by the equally lush musical score that accompanied them…And
Screen adaptation of W. H. Hudson's novel suffers due to miscasting of Hepburn as Rima the Bird Girl…Rima of the novel was 4.5 feet (1.37 m) tall, 17 years of age, demure and dark-haired (although descended from a mysterious group of fair-skinned people), and had lived her life entirely in the deepest jungle. Hepburn at the time of filming was 29 years old, more than a foot taller than the novel Rima, and too stunningly beautiful and smooth-skinned to ever be taken as a forest creature.
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