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15 August 1952 (Finland) morePlot:
A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Far More Interesting Than The Title Implies moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| 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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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
89 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishColor:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound 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)Filming Locations:
Orick, California, USAFun Stuff
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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. moreGoofs:
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. moreSoundtrack:
THE CHARMING SOUBRETTE ON THE POLICE GAZETTE moreFAQ
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Kirk Douglas offered a very good performances in a movie that I really didn't expect much out of, but that turned out to be surprisingly interesting. Neither the title nor the plot gave me high hopes. The story is about the efforts of a religious community to prevent the cutting down of California's giant redwoods by a Wisconsin lumberman. It doesn't sound particularly exciting, but actually turns out to be pretty good. Douglas is the lumberman - Jim Fallon - a charismatic conniver who seems able to convince anyone of his good intentions, even while he plots to take as much advantage of them as he possibly can. There's some decent enough action, particularly the scene in which Fallon tries to rescue Sister Chadwick (Eve Miller) from the out of control train. There's also good use of humour, provided both by Douglas and Edgar Buchanan as "Yukon" Burns, who becomes first Fallon's right hand man and then his antagonist - and who actually ends up being appointed as a marshall by a local judge (Roy Roberts) who's sympathetic to the religious folk and is willing to twist and turn every law on the book to help them.
That evolution is one of the problems with the movie, however. People change too fast from good guys to bad guys, or from friends into enemies, and it's hard to really understand how the changes came upon them, which sometimes makes it hard to keep track of who's on whose side at any given time, and the final evolution of Fallon - telegraphed as it from the moment he arrives in California - is still hard to believe. I also thought that aside from Douglas and Buchanan, the performances were average at best. Still, it's not a bad watch. 6/10