Kim Darby, wasn't it? I rather liked her performance, esp having read the book; in which the point is that Matty, looking back on the events many years later (& in a situation omitted from the film which I won't reveal to you as it is a nice plot point) has this matter-of-fact approach to all these sensational events, both in youth & in age. This might appear as woodenness, but I found it rather subtly done. I valued, e.g., {a touch which doesn't happen in the book} the way Kim D as Matty reacted to the hangings she had just seen: something like, "Well, my goodness!"

kitkat