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A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.
Mel Archer
- Ole
- (uncredited)
John Barton
- Lumberman
- (uncredited)
Arthur Berkeley
- Lumberman
- (uncredited)
Lilian Bond
- Daisy's Girl
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Lumberman
- (uncredited)
Sue Casey
- Young Lady
- (uncredited)
William Challee
- Brother Williams
- (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
- Brother Dorn
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Kirk Douglas in his autobiography "The Ragman's Son", he agreed to act in this film for free, in order to end his contract with Warner Bros. He later said, "It's a bad movie."
- GoofsWalter 'Yukon' Burns has come from the Yukon gold rush, supposedly in Alaska. Although the gold fields of the Yukon Gold Rush of 1897 were predominately in Canada, the Yukon Territory is (and was) completely landlocked, accessibly only by traveling through Alaska on routes such as the Chilkoot Trail, the White Pass Trail, or the Klondike River. It is appropriate to regard 'Yukon' Burns as coming from Alaska.
- Quotes
Daisy Fisher: [to Frenchy] You stye on the eye of a flea on a thigh of a nit on the neck of a gnat!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Dick Cavett Show: Kirk Douglas (1971)
- SoundtracksThe Soubrette on the Police Gazette
(uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Jack Scholl
Sung and Danced by Patrice Wymore
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Kirk Douglas meets the tree cultists -- watch out!
Strictly typical lumberjack story equipped with fistfights, macho talk, and lots of lumber industry stock footage. (In fact, while watching a previous black and white Warner Bros. short from the forties, I noticed that not only was the same lumber footage beeing used, but also the same footage of Kirk Douglas jumping from the hillside onto the train, leading me to ponder whether WB filmed this expensive footage in black and white and also filmed it in color just on the chance they would need such footage in a future color film???). The plot concerns a claim jumping lumber baron (Douglas) who's opposed by a christian cult who believes God loves the redwood trees (where could they possibly have gotten that idea?). Since Douglas falls for the only pretty cultist, he's a cinch to give in and help them against his friends, who include burly lumberjack Alan Hale (always game for timber or naval duty in WB films). This movie can be called mildly entertaining, and that would be saying a lot for it.
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- funkyfry
- Oct 4, 2002
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- Für eine Handvoll Geld
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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