Rent The Big Trees (1952)
3.0 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 29min
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- Synopsis:
- Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon, a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from California's famous giant redwood trees. The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by a religious colony that beg him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias. Initially undeterred he ignores their pleas but soon discovers that there are others, even more ruthless than himself, who also want to oust the settlers. With violent confrontation an inevitability, Fallon slowly comes to question his own unscrupulous nature, and finally makes an unexpected alliance.
- Actors:
- Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr., Roy Roberts, Charles Meredith, Harry Cording, Ellen Corby
- Directors:
- Felix E. Feist
- Writers:
- John Twist, James R. Webb
- Studio:
- Sanctuary
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- 10 Films to Watch if You Like Citizen Kane, All the Twos: 1902-62
