A 60-minute logging camp soap opera where the real villain is workplace jealousy, not the trees.
A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside.
Stunts
That careening brakeless truck sequence is genuinely nerve-wracking B-movie chaos.
Acting
Roddy McDowall's earnest ambition against Gordon Jones' sneering villainy.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Roddy McDowall's transitional roles—fresh off his child stardom, not yet the Planet of the Apes icon, just a guy who really wanted to cut down trees.
Director Jean Yarbrough was a Poverty Row workhorse who churned out B-pictures for Monogram and PRC; this lumberjack quickie exemplifies the 1950s second-feature ecosystem that kept theaters full and actors employed.
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