A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
Cinematography
Technicolor logging Camp locations in Idaho's Payette Lake.
Score
Hoagy Carmichael wrote and performs 'Ole Buttermilk Sky' vignettes.
Acting
Adolphe Menjou playing drunk and corrupt with theatrical relish.
Director
Joseph Kane
Sterling Hayden
Tim Chipman
Vera Ralston
Lynne Tilton
David Brian
Croft Brunner
Adolphe Menjou
'Sweetwater' Tilton
Hoagy Carmichael
Jingles
Chill Wills
Steve Riika
Jim Davis
Poole
Howard Petrie
'Axe-Handle' Ole, a Brunner Henchman
Ian MacDonald
Pauquette
Elisha Cook Jr.
Punky (as Elisha Cook)
Karl 'Killer' Davis
Red Bush (as Karl Davis)
Wally Cassell
Veazie
Chuck Roberson
Lumberjack (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vera Ralston was Republic Pictures president Herbert Yates' girlfriend, which explains her casting despite her Czech accent in a Canadian logging camp.
Shot on location in Idaho with real loggers as extras, making it a rare industrial western that documents actual post-war timber practices.
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