A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.
The Big Trees 1952 HD by Felix E. Feist | Kirk Douglas & Eve Miller | Action & Drama Film
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The Big Trees is a 1952 film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist. It was Kirk Douglas’s final film for Warner Brothers, a film he did for free in exchange for the studio agreeing to release him from his Studio system.
Douglas plays a greedy timber baron who seeks to exploit the Sequoya forest, while facing the protest of the Quaker colonists.
Plot
In 1900, lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) greedily eyed the big sequoia sempervirens redwood trees in the virgin region of northern California. The land is already settled by, among others, a religious group led by Elder Bixby (Charles Meredith (actor)) who have a religious relationship with the redwoods and use to log them, using other smaller trees for lumber. Jim becomes infatuated with Bixby’s daughter, Alicia (Eve Miller), though that does not change his plan to cheat the homesteaders. When Jim’s right-hand man, Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) finds out, he changes sides and leads the locals in resisting Jim. The locals combat Jim’s loggers with a sympathetic judge with Jim fighting back by using Federal laws.
Elder Bixby is killed when a big sequoia sempervirens tree is chopped down by Jim’s men and falls on his cabin. Jim’s desperate attempt to rescue Alicia’s father saves him from being convicted of murder. Meanwhile, timber rival Cleve Gregg (Harry Cording) appears on the scene, making it a three-way fight. Gregg and his partner Frenchy LeCroix (John Archer (actor)) try to assassinate Jim, but end up killing Yukon instead. Jim has a dramatic change of heart and leads the settlers in defeating Gregg and Frenchy. Afterwards, Jim marries Alicia and settles down.
Cast
- Kirk Douglas as Jim Fallon
- Eve Miller as Alicia Chadwick
- Patrice Wymore as Daisy Fisher
- Edgar Buchanan as Yukon Burns
- John Archer (actor) as “Frenchy” LeCroix
- Alan Hale, Jr. as “Tiny”
- Roy Roberts as Judge Crenshaw
- Charles Meredith (actor) as Elder Bixby
- Harry Cording as Cleve Gregg
- Ellen Corby as Mrs. Blackburn
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