The Lady Fights Back (1937)

A beautiful environmentalist clashes with an engineer who is building a dam.

Director:

Milton Carruth

Writers:

Arthur Stringer (novel), Brown Holmes (screenplay),

Stars:

Irene Hervey, Kent Taylor, William Lundigan

Cast

Cast overview:
Irene Hervey	...	Heather McHale
Kent Taylor	...	Owen Merrill
William Lundigan	...	Doug McKenzie
Willie Best	...	McTavish
Frank Jenks	...	Steve
Joe Sawyer	...	Swede Jannsen
Paul Hurst	...	Maloney
Ernest Cossart	...	Commissioner Allan
Chick Chandler	...	Steve Crowder
Si Jenks	...	Villager
Gerald Oliver Smith	...	Sir Daniel McAndrews

Storyline

An engineer for the Northern Power Company, Owen Merrill, arrives at the Muskalala River to make surveys for a dam site. For fifty years the river has been the exclusive fishing preserve of the Muskalala Salmon Club, now operated by Heather McHale. When his reason for being there is discovered, she detains him at the club while she sends out a distress call to the club;s powerful members to meet at the lodge and take action to prevent the dam from being built. Already in love with his hostess/captor, Owen leaves for the dam site only to discover from his assistant, Steve Crowder, that she has gone into action to stop the project. He rushes to the Forest Commissioner's office and discovers eh is already there. He tricks her into a telephone boot, and after locking her in gets the commissioner to sign a permit approving the dam. Unknown to HEather, her guides wreck a truck and take shots at the power-company workers. She stops that but, in her capacity as a Game Warden, arrests Owen for...

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Plot Keywords:

dam | river | lodge | engineer | power company | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 October 1937 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

61 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Only for rainy afternoons

A good pleasant and entertaining Universal studios product. Typical of the 30's and 40's films from the famous Hollywood firm, you'll find any surprise in this tepid and flat programmer. A sort of comedy, adventure flick which you'll probably forget just after watching it. The plot line has already been said above, by our good friend Long Horn, who has picked it from a library dictionary...

One among a billion other ones. I don't know the director, never heard of him before. But a rare item, that deserves to be discovered by old B Hollywood stuff diggers.

I just watched it for principle. Period.