The Big Trees

  • Drama
  • Western
2/5/1952
89
NR

MAMMOTH REDWOOD WILDERNESS -- TREASURE PILED TO THE SKY!

In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.

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  • Wuchak

    Old-fashioned atypical Western laden by complex legal/financial talk, but has several highlights

    RELEASED IN 1952 and directed by Felix Feist, "The Big Trees" stars Kirk Douglas as a conniving lumber baron, Jim Fallon, who schemes to make it rich in Northern California in 1900 when a new law means large tracks of land are up for grabs to whoever can pay the fees. He plans to cut down the mighty redwoods but a colony of homesteading Quaker-like Christians are unwavering in their resolve to save the largest of the sacred trees, which are the ones Fallon wants most. Edgar Buchanan plays Fallons sidekick-turned-marshal in the Redwoods, Walter "Yukon Lucky" Burns.

    This was a remake of Warner Brother's "Valley of the Giants" from fifteen y...

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