A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.
Practical Effects
Genuine timber camp locations, no soundstage forests here.
Costume
Flannel and suspenders that aged better than the dialogue.
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director Andrew V. McLaglen's second feature; he'd later helm John Wayne westerns like McLintock! and The Shootist.
Based on a 1904 novel by Gene Stratton-Porter, previously adapted twice in the silent era—this version sanitized her original Christian moralizing for 1960s family audiences.
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