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Director:
Writers:
Kenneth Earl (story)
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Release Date:
15 August 1952 (Finland) more
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Plot:
A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron. full summary | add synopsis
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Kirk Douglas meets the tree cultists -- watch out! more (10 total)

Cast

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Kirk Douglas ... Jim Fallon
Eve Miller ... Alicia Chadwick
Patrice Wymore ... Daisy Fisher / Dora Figg
Edgar Buchanan ... Walter 'Yukon' Burns
John Archer ... Frenchy LeCroix
Alan Hale Jr. ... Tiny
Roy Roberts ... Judge Crenshaw
Charles Meredith ... Elder Bixby
Harry Cording ... Cleve Gregg
Ellen Corby ... Sister Blackburn
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Additional Details

Runtime:
89 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Canada:G (Ontario) | West Germany:12 (nf) | Greece:K | Finland:K-16 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (2001)
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As of 2002, the rights to this film became public domain, and DVD copies that were "digitally remastered" began appearing in 99 Cent stores in LA area in 2004. more
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Continuity: In the saloon, Daisy dances around and returns to the stage with the help of two men who suspend her. Then we see a fat man standing on the stage corner, in front of a drink glass, clapping her. In the next shot he is drinking. more
Quotes:
Judge Crenshaw: Mr. Burns, I've heard you were an honest man and good with a gun. But I also heard you confessed to weakness for liquor, cards and women.
Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Not women, your Honor. They ain't for the weak.
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Movie Connections:
Remake of Valley of the Giants (1938) more
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6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Kirk Douglas meets the tree cultists -- watch out!, 4 October 2002
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Author: funkyfry from Oakland CA

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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