The Big Trees

Feb 5, 1952

1h 29m

★ 5.6

MAMMOTH REDWOOD WILDERNESS -- TREASURE PILED TO THE SKY!

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Western

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Jim Fallon

Kirk Douglas

Alicia Chadwick

Eve Miller

Daisy Fisher / Dora Figg

Patrice Wymore

Walter 'Yukon' Burns

Edgar Buchanan

Frenchy LeCroix

John Archer

Tiny

Alan Hale Jr.

Judge Crenshaw

Roy Roberts

Elder Bixby

Charles Meredith

Cleve Gregg

Harry Cording

Sister Blackburn

Ellen Corby

Brother Williams (uncredited)

William Challee

Brother Dorn (uncredited)

Lane Chandler

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