Timberjack (1955)
Untamed... wild and primitive as the Great North Woods!
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
- Date of release
- 1955-02-18
- TMDB
- 4.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Music, Action, Western
- Director
- Joseph Kane
Casting
- Sterling Hayden — Tim Chipman
- Vera Ralston — Lynne Tilton
- David Brian — Croft Brunner
- Adolphe Menjou — 'Sweetwater' Tilton
- Hoagy Carmichael — Jingles
- Chill Wills — Steve Riika
- Jim Davis — Poole
- Howard Petrie — 'Axe-Handle' Ole
- Ian MacDonald — Pauquette
- Elisha Cook Jr. — Punky
- Karl 'Killer' Davis — Red Bush
- Wally Cassell — Veazie
Interesting facts
Timberjack is a 1955 American Trucolor lumberjack Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael and Chill Wills. With a very high number of musical sections it approaches a musical in format.
Production
Timberjack was filmed in Glacier National Park and Western Montana using Trucolor film technology. Sterling Hayden and Elisha Cook Jr. would star in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing a year later. Adolphe Menjou later appeared in Kubrick's Paths of Glory 1957.
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