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The Big Trees is a american film of genre Drama directed by Felix E. Feist released in USA on 5 february 1952 with Kirk Douglas
The Big Trees (1952)
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Add to a movie listThe Big Trees is a 1952 film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist. It was Kirk Douglas's final film for Warner Brothers, a film he did for free in exchange for the studio agreeing to release him from his long-term contract.
The film has fallen into the public domain. Douglas plays a greedy timber baron who seeks to exploit the Sequoya forest, while facing the protest of the Quaker colonists.
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In 1900, lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) greedily eyes the big sequoia redwood trees in the virgin region of northern California. The land is already settled by, among others, a religious group led by Elder Bixby (Charles Meredith) who have a religious relationship with the redwoods and refuse to log them, using other smaller trees for lumber. Jim becomes infatuated with Bixby's daughter, Alicia (Eve Miller), though that does not change his plan to cheat the homesteaders. When Jim's right-hand man, Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) finds out, he changes sides and leads the locals in resisting Jim. The locals combat Jim's loggers with a sympathetic judge with Jim fighting back by using Federal laws.Actors
Kirk Douglas
(Jim Fallon)
Edgar Buchanan
(Walter 'Yukon' Burns)
Eve Miller
(Alicia Chadwick)
Patrice Wymore
(Daisy Fisher / Dora Figg)
Charles Meredith
(Elder Bixby)
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