Can you help with name of Movie please?
This US movie is set in the midwest(?) during the 1950's or thereabouts.
Opening scene is of a solitary young girl of about 9 years old. She is playing 'dress-up' wearing her older sister, Alma's, clothes and playing on a little used/disused railway track that runs down the centre of town(?) which is very hot and dusty. She is singing/humming to herself whilst swinging a rag doll. She begins telling the story of her runaway sister Alma, who had, much their parents chagrin, returned back home after several years (possibly with a suitor in tow) At the end of the movie the child narrates, all rather matter of factly, the tragic downfall and violent death of poor Alma.
I think the genre might be describes as the equivalent to British Kitchen Sink Drama.
I watched this movie on telly with my mother around the 1970's
