The Big Trees

The Big Trees (1952)

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.

Date of release
1952-02-05
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (41)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama, Western
Director
Felix E. Feist

Casting

Interesting facts

The Big Trees is a 1952 American lumberjack Western film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist. It is Douglas's final film for Warner Bros. Pictures, and he performed without pay in exchange for releasing him from his long-term contract.

Production

The film was produced with the cooperation of the Hammond and Carlotta lumber companies and was shot at locations in Humboldt County, California.

Footage from Warner Bros.' 1938 Technicolor film Valley of the Giants is used throughout The Big Trees, a similar film, but the studio denied that the later film was a remake of the 1938 film, the 1927 version or the 1919 original.

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