Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Practical Effects
Actual logging footage spliced in—timber falls, no CGI required.
Acting
June Havoc vamping as Lil while her sister was busy being Gypsy Rose Lee.
Director
Frank McDonald
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
June Havoc was the real-life sister of burlesque legend Gypsy Rose Lee; she spent this era playing scrappy dames while Gypsy got the Broadway show.
This was part of a wave of 'timber westerns' in the 1940s—Hollywood's brief obsession with logging as masculine redemption after WWII.
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