The Big Trees
MAMMOTH REDWOOD WILDERNESS -- TREASURE PILED TO THE SKY!
Overview
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
Kirk Douglas
Jim Fallon
Eve Miller
Alicia Chadwick
Patrice Wymore
Daisy Fisher / Dora Figg
Edgar Buchanan
Walter 'Yukon' Burns
John Archer
Frenchy LeCroix
Alan Hale Jr.
Tiny
Roy Roberts
Judge Crenshaw
Charles Meredith
Elder Bixby
Harry Cording
Cleve Gregg
Ellen Corby
Sister Blackburn
William Challee
Brother Williams (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
Brother Dorn (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Glen (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Lumberman (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe
Gray (uncredited)
Michael McHale
Accountant (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Lumberman (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Lumberman (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Felix E. Feist
- Writers
- John Twist,James R. Webb,Kenneth Earl
- Producers
- Louis F. Edelman
- Cinematography
- Bert Glennon
- Composer
- Heinz Roemheld
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Wuchak
April 6, 2018
Old-fashioned atypical Western laden by complex legal/financial talk, but has several highlights RELEASED IN 1952 and directed by Felix Feist, "The Big Trees" stars Kirk Douglas as a conniving lumber baron, Jim Fallon, who schemes to make it rich in Northern California in 1900 when a new law means large tracks of land are up for grabs to whoever can pay the fees. He plans to cut down the mighty redwoods but a colony of homesteading Quaker-like Christians are unwavering in their resolve to sav…
CinemaSerf
June 2, 2026
I wonder if this might have looked better in black and white? In colour it's a rather sterile and over-scripted, join-the-dots, take on the American pioneering story that never quite gets out of second gear. With the economy booming back East, there is an insatiable demand for lumber and so the government has pretty much declared open season on the nation's forests. "Fallon" (Kirk Douglas) sees a chance to make a fortune and so sets off to lop down some giant redwood trees. They are growing on l…