🌲🌿 Set against the majestic redwoods of California, The Big Trees (1952) is a rousing Technicolor drama where greed clashes with faith and nature. With Kirk Douglas in an early starring role, the film blends romance, action, and moral conflict in the great outdoors.
📽️ Plot Summary:
Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas), a ruthless lumberman, schemes to exploit the giant redwoods of California. But when his ambitions threaten the lives and land of a religious community, he’s forced to confront his conscience. Torn between avarice and redemption, Fallon finds himself fighting not just for wealth but for love and honor.
🕰️ Year Released: 1952
🎭 Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
🎬 Directed by: Felix E. Feist
🎞️ Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Kirk Douglas in a powerful, morally conflicted performance
✔️ Stunning Technicolor cinematography showcasing California’s giant redwoods
✔️ A blend of action, romance, and redemption story
✔️ Classic 1950s outdoor adventure with heart
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🌲 Can one man’s greed be redeemed by love and faith? Witness Kirk Douglas’s battle of conscience in The Big Trees (1952)!
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📽️ Plot Summary:
Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas), a ruthless lumberman, schemes to exploit the giant redwoods of California. But when his ambitions threaten the lives and land of a religious community, he’s forced to confront his conscience. Torn between avarice and redemption, Fallon finds himself fighting not just for wealth but for love and honor.
🕰️ Year Released: 1952
🎭 Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
🎬 Directed by: Felix E. Feist
🎞️ Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ Kirk Douglas in a powerful, morally conflicted performance
✔️ Stunning Technicolor cinematography showcasing California’s giant redwoods
✔️ A blend of action, romance, and redemption story
✔️ Classic 1950s outdoor adventure with heart
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🌲 Can one man’s greed be redeemed by love and faith? Witness Kirk Douglas’s battle of conscience in The Big Trees (1952)!
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00:01:19Stand now, Frenchie. We're going in.
00:01:21Drag him out.
00:01:22No, you don't.
00:01:23Settle down now. You'll get paid.
00:01:24What's all the money?
00:01:33What else? Money!
00:01:34Nobody likes working for nothing.
00:01:37Come on out here, fallen!
00:01:39Patience, boys. Be with you in a minute.
00:01:54Alan, I've strung along with you in a lot of wild-eyed schemes of yours, but this time you've gone too far. You're going to jail.
00:02:00After all I've done for him.
00:02:01Done for me? Your finagling's cost my syndicate a quarter of a million dollars.
00:02:04More, Mr. Murdoch.
00:02:06We finance you to mill lumber in Wisconsin, but you stashed it away for a timber steal in California.
00:02:11According to the new landlord, strictly legal.
00:02:13All I know is what you cost us. You're going to land in prison until we get it back.
00:02:17Now, putting me in prison is a sure way of losing all your money.
00:02:21Now, what's a couple of hundred thousand to a group like yours?
00:02:24Let me take a boatload of my boys out there, and I'll make a fortune for you.
00:02:27Listen to those men.
00:02:29Why, you haven't met a payroll in weeks.
00:02:31Do you think they'd ever work for you again?
00:02:33They like me.
00:02:36You do too, don't you?
00:02:37What makes you think I'd trust you again?
00:02:40Because your syndicate wants money, and there's plenty to be had in California.
00:02:44Hey, Jim.
00:02:47What is it, Frenchie?
00:02:49The boys are mighty close to getting out of hand.
00:02:51Look, Mr. Murdoch, you better let me get the boys under control before they wreck the mill, and you'll be out another 50,000.
00:02:56Uh, Daisy, honey, take Mr. Murdoch over to the hotel.
00:02:59The best champagne for him and his friends.
00:03:01I just happen to have a couple of bottles in the oven.
00:03:04You come along too, Sheriff.
00:03:06I have a few girlfriends who just love policemen.
00:03:10Don't forget, Fallon.
00:03:11I can put you in jail six months from now, just as well as today.
00:03:14Here's your money, boys.
00:03:41Certified cashier's check.
00:03:43Ah, you gave us that check business before.
00:03:45Yeah, we want to see the cash.
00:03:47Where's the money?
00:03:48Yeah, we want to see the cash.
00:03:49Where's the money?
00:03:50All right, boys.
00:03:52Anything you say goes.
00:03:54Frenchie, take this check to the bank.
00:03:57Have them send over a couple of guards with the cash.
00:03:59Go on.
00:04:01You heard them.
00:04:02They want their money.
00:04:02Get to the bank.
00:04:03You know what this means, fellas?
00:04:07You're breaking up the team.
00:04:11For good.
00:04:13Jim Fallon and his boys.
00:04:15The minute you sign that receipt book, paid in full, that's the end.
00:04:20You leave me busted.
00:04:21You put me out of business.
00:04:23Good thing it is, Fallon.
00:04:25It's about time to.
00:04:27Pay them off once and for all.
00:04:28Let them come back to work for us honest lumbermen.
00:04:30Steady work and regular pay.
00:04:32We've had enough of you, Fallon.
00:04:34You'll leave them down.
00:04:35And right now.
00:04:37Yeah.
00:04:37A couple of measly bobcats turned tigers.
00:04:41We're not joking, Fallon.
00:04:42Get going.
00:04:56I'm moving no place till I'm ready.
00:05:05Get them out of here.
00:05:06That was great, Jim.
00:05:08All right?
00:05:09What a wild boy.
00:05:11Good boy.
00:05:14Boys.
00:05:16Even if I'd been shot, it'd been worth it to know how you feel about me.
00:05:20You're still like me.
00:05:21And now I want to tell you why I hoped you'd stick with me.
00:05:24You know me.
00:05:25Jim Fallon doesn't like the hire he likes to share.
00:05:29And right now, I want to share with you the whole north of California.
00:05:33There's giant redwoods out there, men big around as that office.
00:05:36So tall you can't see the sky.
00:05:39There's so much board footage in just one of those big trees that it makes a month's cutting here look like a pile of toothpicks.
00:05:45Now look.
00:05:47You're the best lumberjacks in the business.
00:05:49That's why you're my team.
00:05:50And that's why I want to take you to California with me.
00:05:53Each man a partner of Jim Fallon.
00:05:56And every man with a share in a hundred million dollars.
00:06:00How do you like that, boys?
00:06:01Do you still want Frenchy to go to the bank?
00:06:03No!
00:06:04Do you take your chances with me?
00:06:06I will.
00:06:07Me too, champion.
00:06:08I will.
00:06:08Me too.
00:06:08You might find a couple of cases in the office.
00:06:11Help yourself.
00:06:12Hey, it's all right, huh?
00:06:14It's all right.
00:06:14It's all right.
00:06:14It's all right.
00:06:15Let's go.
00:06:15It's all right.
00:06:18Thanks, Jim.
00:06:20You're okay.
00:06:21Hey, stranger.
00:06:22I don't have to tell you how grateful I am, stranger.
00:06:29I'm Yukon Burns.
00:06:31Your name's luck to me.
00:06:32I ought to make a little statue, you, and hang it right alongside this horse.
00:06:36You could hang me there.
00:06:37I'll come haul them inside.
00:06:39I'll put some stuffing in you.
00:06:41You stick with me, friend, and you'll always have a full belly.
00:06:44Come on.
00:06:48Alaska gold rush, huh?
00:06:51Yukon Burns, the billionaire.
00:06:52Traveling around in freight cars, trying to get a logging job.
00:06:55You got yourself a better job than that.
00:06:57For life.
00:06:59Kind of like me, don't you?
00:07:01Like the way you square-toted with your men and stood up for them gun-toters.
00:07:05Here.
00:07:06Yeah, keep it learning.
00:07:08Honest, huh?
00:07:09Besides being handy with a gun, I can use a friend like you, Lucky.
00:07:19Hey, Jim.
00:07:20I have to teach them hawks just to keep their nose out of my business.
00:07:29Here.
00:07:30Wet this.
00:07:31Clem.
00:07:40Clem.
00:07:41Sorry.
00:07:41I didn't count on the shooting either, but everything worked out just fine.
00:07:47Thanks.
00:07:49That'll learn you to keep your big mouth shut.
00:07:53Come on, Yukon.
00:07:53Jim.
00:08:01Be right with you, Yukon.
00:08:10Well, your pigeon is thoroughly cooked and basted in white wine.
00:08:13He's all yours.
00:08:14I don't know what I'd do with that.
00:08:15I don't care anymore.
00:08:19Just pay.
00:08:20Daisy, honey, don't you trust me?
00:08:22Don't Daisy, honey, me.
00:08:24You prefer Dora Fig?
00:08:25You lay off my past or I'll start to spill yours.
00:08:28Forget the past.
00:08:29Think of the future.
00:08:30That's nothing.
00:08:32We're going to get very rich in California.
00:08:34We'll leave next month.
00:08:35Not we, not me, you.
00:08:40Honey, you're part of my luck.
00:08:42Oh, say that, Bolani, for when you head into those wild Westerners.
00:08:46You won't be pushing around a bunch of these tame Wisconsin stump-jumbers.
00:08:49Don't think those Californians are going to sit around in their rocking chairs and watch you grab off their land.
00:08:54I'll handle that problem when I come to it.
00:08:56Without me?
00:08:58You'll be right there looking out for me, same as always.
00:09:04Always is over, Jim.
00:09:06I'm tired of chasing those smoke rings of yours.
00:09:09I'm staying here, and I'm looking out for me.
00:09:12You're right, Daisy.
00:09:15You do a lot better without me.
00:09:18You said it.
00:09:20I'm no good for you.
00:09:22You're doing a smart thing, giving me up.
00:09:29I'm just bad for you.
00:09:31Believe me, Daisy.
00:09:32You should have a life of your own.
00:09:36Thanks.
00:09:38Thanks for everything.
00:09:39Yeah, you deserve a lot better man than me, but if you ever want anything, you know where to find me.
00:10:05Don't have something like that leave you.
00:10:18He'll be back.
00:10:20Nobody Jim Fallon likes ever leaves him.
00:10:22That goes for you, too.
00:10:24Here's your job.
00:10:28I'm going to dress you up like a billionaire.
00:10:31You're going to Redwood, California ahead of me.
00:10:33Goodwill merchant.
00:10:34Take the biggest treats.
00:10:36Just flash that on his face at the hostile neighbor.
00:10:38Hostile?
00:10:39Why?
00:10:41Hope you ain't counting on me using this.
00:10:44When a man's my friend, I count on him for anything.
00:10:46You mean you've never even been to California?
00:11:03Only in my dreams.
00:11:05Why did you send that Alaska sourdough out ahead of me?
00:11:11Let's face it, Frenchy.
00:11:13You're a good timber boss.
00:11:14But people say goodbye to you before you can say hello.
00:11:20That you've got three weeks in Redwood and he's got them eating out of his hand.
00:11:24Yeah, I got a feeling he's going to bring me plenty of good luck.
00:11:39You're doing right for locking up, Mr. Keller.
00:11:41I hope so.
00:11:49Look here, Keller.
00:11:50You can't keep refusal to let these men file new timber claims.
00:11:54I'm the government agent here, Mr. Gregg, not you.
00:11:56On that door, it says office hours, eight to six.
00:11:59You're opening up again.
00:12:00Right now.
00:12:01I'd stay friendly, neighbor.
00:12:04Oh, Fallon's man, Burns.
00:12:07I'm Cleve Gregg.
00:12:09You're just another claim jumper to me, mister.
00:12:11That's because you're new here.
00:12:13I own the Redwood Sawmill Company,
00:12:15and I aim to finance these men file for homesteads.
00:12:17The new law wasn't made for timber thieves.
00:12:20What do you mean, thieves?
00:12:21Every lumberman around here has a copy of that law.
00:12:24All claims filed under the Stone and Timber Act of 1868
00:12:28are hereby rendered null and void.
00:12:30Land agents, that's you, Keller,
00:12:32are hereby authorized and instructed to accept applications
00:12:35on any and all such claims in their districts,
00:12:38if you have $125.
00:12:40I know all about that, Mr. Gregg.
00:12:43Just the same, I'm waiting for more instructions
00:12:45from the Department of the Interior
00:12:47before I let you steal homesteads my friends have owned for 50 years.
00:12:52$125 filing fee for each quarter section is stealing.
00:12:56This fellow's been scouting the biggest trees in the county,
00:12:59and he's probably bribed you to wait until Fallon and his men get here
00:13:02to file on choice claims.
00:13:04Jim Fallon's an honest man.
00:13:06He's going to pay the old settlers for every claim he stakes out.
00:13:09Did you hear that, Jim?
00:13:10Pay him for free land.
00:13:13He's been doing a lot of expensive good-willing around here.
00:13:16He knows what he's doing.
00:13:18Now get this through your head, Keller.
00:13:20You're opening this office right now,
00:13:21or I'll have you jailed.
00:13:23No, you won't.
00:13:25Pay no attention to him, Mr. Keller.
00:13:26Keep thee away from violence, Sister Alicia.
00:13:30What are they all dressed up for?
00:13:33There's a hell of a lull you call any around here.
00:13:35Soul savers.
00:13:37Rigid and religious.
00:13:39The dark-haired one can save my soul anytime.
00:13:44Open that office, or I'll have my boys break the door down.
00:13:47You do, and you'll walk in on your face.
00:13:49Keller, you're going to start taking applications
00:13:51right now.
00:13:52Come on, boys.
00:13:57Sister Chadwick, no.
00:13:59Stay with us.
00:14:00Hold your ground, Mr. Keller.
00:14:01Be firm.
00:14:02I'm going to Eureka, and tell this to the socket judge.
00:14:06I'll tote your cross for 50 cents, ma'am.
00:14:09No, thank you.
00:14:10Well, seeing as how you're bow-legged, two pits.
00:14:12I am not bow-legged.
00:14:13Alicia!
00:14:14No, you're not.
00:14:16Sister Chadwick, thy father, shall hear of this.
00:14:21There, now, isn't that worth it?
00:14:25Here's your quarter.
00:14:27Thank you, ma'am.
00:14:28Ah, Sister Chadwick.
00:14:29Where's your Mr. Fallon?
00:14:31I came to thank both of you for protecting our land.
00:14:34That Fallon's a wonderful lad, ma'am.
00:14:35I'm sure he could teach you manners.
00:14:38That's Jim Fallon.
00:14:42Oh.
00:14:44Pleased to meet you, Miss Chadwick.
00:14:45Mrs. Chadwick.
00:14:47Oh.
00:14:48Just like I told you, you don't need to worry about your trees no more.
00:14:51Jim here's going to do the claiming.
00:14:53He's got plenty of money.
00:14:54In fact, he invented his stuff.
00:14:55Why haven't you refiled on your land?
00:14:59Multiply 400 quarter sections by $125, and you'll see how much we'd have to pay.
00:15:04400 quarter sections and broke?
00:15:06You must be pretty poor operators.
00:15:08None of these religious colonists ever bother to accumulate much cash.
00:15:12There's no need to.
00:15:13See, Jim, these are wonderful folks.
00:15:16They'll give you anything they got.
00:15:17If they haven't got anything to give you, they'll say a prayer for you.
00:15:22Sister Chadwick, you think prayer's going to save those big trees?
00:15:25We were assured we could rely on you for that.
00:15:28We don't want them touched.
00:15:30What's so special about them?
00:15:32Well, after you've been around them a while, you'll understand.
00:15:37Sister Alicia, come thee away from all those men.
00:15:41There's safety in numbers, Sister Blackburn.
00:15:43Say, by the way, whatever happened to your bees and thou?
00:15:46Sister Chadwick has been too long out in the world.
00:15:50I'd like you to meet my father, Mr. Fallon.
00:15:52Won't you have supper with us this evening?
00:15:54I'd like to.
00:15:55I'll meet you at six in the Bixby Grove.
00:15:57Mr. Burns knows the way.
00:15:59I'm anxious for you to see our trees.
00:16:09This must be good luck.
00:16:11I've known a lot of gals.
00:16:12This is the first time one of them ever asked me to come up and see her trees.
00:16:15I thought this trip was supposed to be strictly business.
00:16:19There's a lot of ways of doing business.
00:16:22What are all these promises I hear you've been making?
00:16:24Just plain common sense.
00:16:27Yukon, I'd feel a lot better if you'd walk me home.
00:16:29Well, I'm glad to bodyguard you any time.
00:16:32Hey, Lucky.
00:16:34I want to talk to you.
00:16:36Meet me in the saloon.
00:16:41You better get rid of that daffy sourdough.
00:16:43Or he gets you hooked for money ain't got.
00:16:45I ever had to ask you your advice.
00:16:49Look.
00:16:51I passed up top jobs to Woods, Voshert, timber grab.
00:16:55He promised we'd make a killing.
00:16:57All I hear now is some idiot promising to pay.
00:17:00Pay for something you can get for nothing.
00:17:01Nobody's gonna pay.
00:17:02As soon as that bull brings in our loggers,
00:17:04I'll run them into the land office and file.
00:17:07Nobody's gonna pay.
00:17:15Let me borrow your knife, Lucky.
00:17:43Thanks.
00:17:45Biggest, oldest, living things in the whole world.
00:17:59Make you feel kind of small?
00:18:01Nope.
00:18:02Big.
00:18:03I'm the one that's gonna knock them down.
00:18:06The Widow Chadwick and her folks
00:18:07don't want these trees touched at any price.
00:18:10She's a widow, huh?
00:18:12What's the difference?
00:18:13When you grow up, I'll explain it to you.
00:18:18Who was Chadwick?
00:18:20The young seafaring feller.
00:18:22Here he lost his life at sea a few years ago.
00:18:24I bet there's a hundred houses in one of these.
00:18:31Look, Jim.
00:18:34Yeah?
00:18:34He's calling us to trust in you
00:18:36on account of what I've told him about you.
00:18:38You play square with them, and you'll do all right.
00:18:41You'll bet I will.
00:18:4428 and a half feet.
00:18:46This is just a baby.
00:18:47Hello.
00:18:52Right on time.
00:18:54Sister Chadwick,
00:18:56thou hasten been out of my thoughts a minute.
00:18:58I hope you're both hungry.
00:18:59I look forward to thy home cooking.
00:19:02Then it will please thee to know
00:19:03that thou shall help with the washing of the dishes
00:19:05to make thee feel that our home is thine.
00:19:08It's a lovely walk.
00:19:09Mr. Fallon, this is my father, Elder Bixby.
00:19:36How do you do, sir?
00:19:37Welcome, friend.
00:19:38Brother?
00:19:38Mrs. Clapford, Mrs. Wallon.
00:19:40We met, practically, Brother Jordan.
00:19:42How do you do?
00:19:43On the roof, Brother Williams.
00:19:46And Brother Williams' daughter.
00:19:52Magnificent country.
00:19:53It's different from Wisconsin, huh?
00:19:55Yes, it is.
00:19:56I've never been stirred as deeply
00:19:58as by your beautiful trees.
00:20:00And his daughter.
00:20:01Then you can understand how we feel about them,
00:20:04why we hold them in sacred trust.
00:20:06Sacred?
00:20:06Somebody's bound to get them by claiming.
00:20:09Not if we can help it.
00:20:10I'm certain we can place faith in Mr. Fallon and Mr. Burns
00:20:13to help us keep them from destruction.
00:20:16If I felt like you did about trees,
00:20:18I'd soon be out of business.
00:20:20The giant sequoias are more than trees, friend.
00:20:23They are the everlasting, living sign of our Creator's work.
00:20:264,000 years old, as old as the book and the faith.
00:20:31This was just a little bit.
00:20:34Only 900 years old.
00:20:36But it was a living sapling when the Norman conquerors invaded England.
00:20:40It was about this size when Columbus discovered America.
00:20:45About this large, the time of George Washington
00:20:47and our Declaration of Independence.
00:20:49This marks the time of Abraham Lincoln
00:20:52and the Emancipation Proclamation.
00:20:54It was felled during the term of our present president, Mr. McKinley.
00:20:58God made them to touch the skies,
00:21:00taller than any spire of any church.
00:21:03They are our church, our place of worship.
00:21:06Mr. Fallon will build you a dozen churches.
00:21:09Let's be practical.
00:21:11You men cut timber.
00:21:12The small trees are all we cut.
00:21:14The giant redwoods we do not.
00:21:15The government passed a death sentence on every tree in the district.
00:21:19We know you'll help us.
00:21:21I admire your faith.
00:21:24Southburn!
00:21:26Clopper!
00:21:41A real home.
00:21:43Where do you sit?
00:21:46We ladies eat later.
00:21:47As it should be.
00:21:50Mr. Fallon, will you sit here?
00:21:52Oh, thank you.
00:21:54What's your name?
00:21:55His name is Tom.
00:21:58Well, no wonder he likes me.
00:22:00While the ladies are setting the meal,
00:22:02we'll read from the scriptures.
00:22:04It is our custom to ask the stranger in our house
00:22:06to do the reading.
00:22:07Oh, naturally.
00:22:09Of course.
00:22:10Perhaps Mr. Fallon would rather quote from memory.
00:22:16It's safer if I read.
00:22:17I've been known to get my verses mixed.
00:22:21Um,
00:22:22hear from the Psalms of David.
00:22:27Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
00:22:30The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
00:22:33Amen.
00:22:34Amen.
00:22:35Amen.
00:22:36Amen.
00:22:36Amen.
00:22:36Amen.
00:22:40Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
00:22:49You big, hardhead.
00:22:50What'd you get me into?
00:22:51You got me into it.
00:22:52You sent me out here.
00:22:54Look here, Jim.
00:22:55Just how much are you going to pay these folks for this land?
00:22:59Lucky, you better start getting yourself some common sense.
00:23:03Do you realize how much it costs to operate a timber outfit?
00:23:05I can't afford to pay for thousands of acres of free land and still run a business.
00:23:10But I gave him a word, and you...
00:23:12Once, last, and for all.
00:23:14There's not going to be any payment for any land the government says is free.
00:23:18You sound like a claim jumper to me.
00:23:20If you know what a sourdough thinks of that stripe, you don't want me around.
00:23:24Where are you going?
00:23:25Back to Alaska to get me some fresh air.
00:23:26How lucky.
00:23:27Nobody Jim Fallon likes ever leaves him.
00:23:29I'm kind of superstitious about my luck running out on me.
00:23:32Look, you got the wrong slant.
00:23:35It ain't something you can wear on a watch chain.
00:23:38It ain't even money in your kick.
00:23:39Nine times out of ten, it's the way you live.
00:23:42Look who's talking about living.
00:23:44When I picked you up, you were a job-hunting, empty-bellied crumb.
00:23:47Look at you now, you're just beginning to live.
00:23:50But it's going to be my way.
00:23:52Why, you stinking claim jumper?
00:23:54Oh, now take it easy.
00:23:56Get out of my way.
00:23:58Now take it easy.
00:23:59Shit.
00:24:00Wait.
00:24:01Take it easy.
00:24:04Give it a little more.
00:24:09Please.
00:24:17Lucky.
00:24:23You win, Lucky.
00:24:26I'll pay them a premium for the land.
00:24:29And you won't cut the big trees.
00:24:32Oh.
00:24:34Oh.
00:24:35Sorry, Jim.
00:24:36I'll get you a doctor.
00:24:37Oh.
00:24:38Oh, now be reasonable.
00:24:50I'm offering you a royalty of one percent.
00:24:51You throw in all logging equipment.
00:24:52All right, two percent.
00:25:03And believe me, this is all faith, hope, and charity.
00:25:06I believe you.
00:25:08You're a decent man.
00:25:09I like you for trying to do what you don't have to.
00:25:12Well, that's very nice apple butter.
00:25:14How much of the elder tell you to hold out for?
00:25:17I've told you we're only interested in saving these giant trees.
00:25:20Not your money.
00:25:22Wait a minute.
00:25:23Wait a minute.
00:25:24I didn't say anything about money.
00:25:25Just percentage.
00:25:26Percentage of what you own or what someone else owns.
00:25:31Sister Chadwick, my conscience is clean.
00:25:34All right, another half percent.
00:25:37What's your conscience name?
00:25:39Mr. Yukon Burns?
00:25:42This is a very good place to talk about conscience.
00:25:46This is our church.
00:25:47Let's lay off the pious price hiking and admit the trees are trees and money's money.
00:25:51You folks stand to make a million.
00:25:53You're right.
00:25:54Some trees are trees.
00:26:06Come here.
00:26:12You've never seen anything more beautiful.
00:26:15Never.
00:26:17Certainly there's enough timber around here without you destroying these.
00:26:21I live by the bored foot.
00:26:24Doesn't all this beauty mean anything to you?
00:26:29Beauty?
00:26:30Sure.
00:26:31That's what it's all about, sister, since the beginning of the world.
00:26:34That's what makes men thresh the wheat, pick the grapes, hire a band.
00:26:39All the sweat of men it's poured on earth's been for beauty.
00:26:42The beauty of women.
00:26:44Yeah, that's the buggy whip that drives us, Alicia.
00:26:51You know what I mean?
00:26:54I certainly do.
00:26:56You're wasting all the pretty words.
00:26:58Not words.
00:26:59Time.
00:27:00Time.
00:27:00You're wasting time as well as words.
00:27:12I gotta hand it to you, Widow Chadwick.
00:27:15You sure know how to put a man on ice.
00:27:17Why not?
00:27:19Business should be practical.
00:27:21And cold.
00:27:21So let's be practical.
00:27:30Lumberman, look.
00:27:32How tall?
00:27:40Five feet, five and a half.
00:27:41Two hundred and thirteen feet.
00:27:45How big around?
00:27:46Twenty-four waist.
00:27:48Sixteen feet.
00:27:50Total footage?
00:27:52Wonderfully proportioned.
00:27:54Roughly, uh, thirty-three thousand square feet.
00:27:56And every inch alive.
00:27:58Fourteen dollars per thousand board foot delivered in San Francisco.
00:28:01You got soft lips.
00:28:03Now it takes five times as much labor to market one of the big trees as one of the little ones.
00:28:08And there's only three times as much lumber.
00:28:09Therefore, the giants aren't nearly as profitable.
00:28:12You haven't been kissed nearly enough.
00:28:14I said profitable, Mr. Fallon.
00:28:16You ought to understand that.
00:28:19Uh-huh.
00:28:20You're quite a mathematician, so solve this problem.
00:28:23Either you take three percent or I'm taking your land.
00:28:27Like it says in the Bible, the Lord helps him who helps himself.
00:28:30Then you'll need a lot of help.
00:28:32I've got it.
00:28:34A boatload.
00:28:39Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
00:29:09They're Fallon's there. They're taking over the land office.
00:29:23Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:26Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:27Listen to me, Judge.
00:29:28We're thankful you're here.
00:29:29I hurried all the way from Eureka.
00:29:32Still swarming with boomers, I see.
00:29:34They mean to claim our land.
00:29:35Well, we'll see what can be done.
00:29:36I thought you were going to file in the names of the colonists, Mr. Fallon.
00:29:42That was yesterday. My boys are filing. I want those application blanks.
00:29:45I've got the cash right here to cover all of them.
00:29:48Just a minute, Keller.
00:29:50Judge Crenshaw, must I take these applications?
00:29:54Yes, from anyone mean enough to use this land grabber's law.
00:29:57Can't Mr. Keller wait. Maybe some of us can raise the filing cost.
00:30:00He can't wait.
00:30:02I know claim law. You've got to have a place in line.
00:30:04Let's have those application blanks.
00:30:09Step up, boys.
00:30:10Fill in those blanks and duplicate.
00:30:12Fallon, this is subterfuge with intent to defraud.
00:30:15Filing on the dummy signatures.
00:30:17These men aren't dummies. I'm only loaning them the money.
00:30:20Are you willing to go on record that's illegal?
00:30:23No, I'm not.
00:30:24But the court will go thoroughly into the case.
00:30:26Suits me fine.
00:30:27By that time, the logs will be off and the court can have the stumps.
00:30:32Jim, you've got to let them keep the big redwoods.
00:30:35I came here to get the big ones.
00:30:38You'll never get them.
00:30:39We could have cut enough timber to raise our filing fees.
00:30:42But we believed you're Mr. Burns.
00:30:44We trusted you because of him.
00:30:46But that's past, Mr. Fallon.
00:30:48We know you now.
00:30:49And with the help of the Lord, somehow we'll stop you.
00:30:57So far, you've made a liar out of me.
00:30:59Hand back every one of them application blanks.
00:31:02There ain't going to be any filing of any kind here.
00:31:11You win again, Lucky.
00:31:12I beat you half to death once.
00:31:20Now I'm going to finish the job.
00:31:23Please don't try it, Duke.
00:31:29Don't do it, Lucky.
00:31:31Keep her out of there.
00:31:42Here's your boat fare.
00:31:49I hear there's still gold in Alaska.
00:31:53I'm staying here.
00:31:57Then you'll get hurt again.
00:31:58What time you got yourself straight on that sourdough?
00:32:17He's twice the man you'll ever be.
00:32:22Come on, boys.
00:32:23Get out those blanks.
00:32:28I'd never treat a timber boss of mine like that.
00:32:35Let's you and I have a drink sometime.
00:32:41It's a better time than now.
00:32:46And wash us clean of hatreds, our father,
00:32:49that we may call no man our enemy.
00:32:52Make our faith in thee
00:32:53to be without question of thy will,
00:32:56that we may live the words of the scripture.
00:33:01Love the Lord with all thy heart
00:33:03and with all thy soul
00:33:05and with all thy might.
00:33:07Amen.
00:33:11Thou art always welcome amongst us, but...
00:33:13But I can't lick Fallon alone.
00:33:15Now, you've got some mighty hefty boys here.
00:33:18And if you'd use them the way the Lord suggests...
00:33:20That's right, Yukon.
00:33:22Sister, hush, let him give his testimonial.
00:33:24Well, I've been a wicked man in my time
00:33:31with a weakness for drink and cards
00:33:33and other trifles.
00:33:36But I've done some reading of the book.
00:33:39And when it says,
00:33:40Love thy neighbor with all thy heart
00:33:41and with all thy soul,
00:33:43that's great.
00:33:45But if it's not enough,
00:33:46it tacks on with all thy might.
00:33:49And that means might.
00:33:51And that there's fighting talk.
00:33:52That's the only kind Jim Fallon will ever understand.
00:33:55Violence is not in our creed.
00:33:57Yeah, I know.
00:33:59And I believe in turning the other cheek.
00:34:02But you've just about to run out of cheeks.
00:34:04It's time you started growing some religious muscles.
00:34:06Thou dost not understand our covenants.
00:34:09Well, appears not.
00:34:10But where I come from,
00:34:11the Lord didn't build strong backs
00:34:12just to let wickedness seize the earth.
00:34:14Whatever we do, Mr. Burns,
00:34:16will be done in conformance with the law.
00:34:18But Mr. Fallon is using the law
00:34:20to take our land.
00:34:22The Lord will not fail us.
00:34:26Well, I see it's no use.
00:34:29Thanks anyhow, Elder,
00:34:30for letting me voice my theology.
00:34:36Father.
00:34:37The book of Job,
00:34:41ninth chapter,
00:34:42twenty-second verse.
00:34:43They that hate thee
00:34:45shall be clothed with shame.
00:34:47I'm Judge Prenshaw.
00:34:49I've been looking for you.
00:34:50I got something I want to talk to you about.
00:34:52So have I.
00:34:54Well, then, hop in, both of you.
00:34:55We'll go over to your place
00:34:56where we can talk in private.
00:35:01Mr. Burns,
00:35:02I heard you were an honest man
00:35:04and good with a gun.
00:35:05I also heard you confess
00:35:07to a weakness for liquor,
00:35:08cards, and women.
00:35:09Not women, Your Honor.
00:35:11They ain't for the weak.
00:35:13One of the principal reasons
00:35:14for my coming to Redwood
00:35:15was to appoint a marshal.
00:35:17Marshal?
00:35:18Well.
00:35:22You got one, Judge.
00:35:24Then that's settled.
00:35:26Congratulations, Yukon.
00:35:27I guess this gives him
00:35:28the power to stop Jim Fallon.
00:35:30Well, he won't keep
00:35:31those applications of his
00:35:32from being mailed to Washington.
00:35:33It would take an act of God
00:35:35to stop that.
00:35:37Judge, just how would
00:35:39a legal man define
00:35:40an act of God?
00:35:41Well, I'd say any cataclysm,
00:35:43which was not caused
00:35:45by the human hand.
00:35:47Cataclysm?
00:35:49That got anything to do
00:35:50with cats?
00:35:52Nice kitty.
00:36:23Sister Chadwick.
00:36:30Good evening.
00:36:31Taking up with four-footed beasts, eh?
00:36:35Don't blame you what I've seen of the two-legged kind.
00:36:38Don't you think the new marshal was an excellent choice?
00:36:40Mr. Burns is a good man.
00:36:43Transferred Fallon's clay money out of here into the bank.
00:36:46Didn't want it to reflect on me if anything happened.
00:36:48I brought a letter of protest written by Judge Crenshaw
00:36:51stating his opinion of our rights in this case.
00:36:54He wants a copy forwarded to Washington
00:36:55along with every one of Jim Fallon's applications.
00:36:58Well, it's getting late and I'm awfully hungry.
00:37:02That's a lot of copying.
00:37:03I'll get started on it.
00:37:04You go home and eat.
00:37:06Thanks.
00:37:07Do you mind if we open a window?
00:37:08It's rather stuffy in here.
00:37:10I'll do it.
00:37:17They're going to lock up after me.
00:37:21See you later, Miss Alicia.
00:37:42Mr. Alicia, I have some grub for your cat.
00:37:45Get away, listen to the dog food.
00:37:46Get away.
00:37:48Cataclysm.
00:38:18Wait a minute.
00:38:23I don't want anybody taking anything out of here.
00:38:34Sister Chadwick, what happened?
00:38:36It was my cat, Mr. Killer.
00:38:37Getting out of the way of two stray dogs.
00:38:39Hmm.
00:38:40Don't blame the cat at all.
00:38:42Kitty, kitty.
00:38:48You just gonna stand there and watch it burn?
00:38:53Well, that's quite a sight.
00:38:55My applications are in there.
00:38:57Your claim money was transferred to the bank felon.
00:39:01I'm the only loser.
00:39:02It's burning down my courtroom.
00:39:04I see.
00:39:06I see.
00:39:09I see.
00:39:14I see.
00:39:16I see.
00:39:18I see.
00:39:20I see.
00:39:27I suppose no one thought of calling the fire department.
00:39:31How did it happen?
00:39:36Accident.
00:39:37For a cat.
00:39:38Dear sister, you're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:39:52Me neither, Jim.
00:39:53Let him that stole steal no more.
00:39:55Rather let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good.
00:39:58Ephesians.
00:39:59First four, line 26.
00:40:0028.
00:40:01Kelly, you better wire Washington tonight for a new batch of application plaques.
00:40:06What's your hurry?
00:40:07You can't file again until they send duplicate title records.
00:40:11That takes time.
00:40:17That is the most satisfying act of God I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing.
00:40:22Judge, I demand you appoint a marshal to investigate.
00:40:25I've appointed one.
00:40:26Marshal Burns, will you kindly look into this case?
00:40:31Marshal Burns?
00:40:32Yep.
00:40:33There's not much I can do about an act of God.
00:40:36I cite your precedent, Mr. Fallon.
00:40:38The Chicago case of Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
00:40:41Of course, we're not quite as big as Chicago.
00:40:43We've only got a cat.
00:40:45Nice, Jim.
00:40:50As you so rightly said, the Lord helps him who helps himself.
00:40:54We'll raise the money for the filing fees by cutting and selling timber.
00:40:58That fire doesn't change a new law.
00:41:00Your flock can't work property they don't own.
00:41:03Mr. Fallon's right.
00:41:04That's the law.
00:41:05I'll follow the law to the letter, Jim.
00:41:07That's all I want.
00:41:09Looks like you'll have to train that cat to steal trees.
00:41:22Timber!
00:41:23Timber!
00:41:24Timber!
00:41:25Timber!
00:41:26Timber!
00:41:27Timber!
00:41:28Timber!
00:41:58Quiet! Quiet, everybody! Quiet! I'll have you all removed.
00:42:06Fires may come and roll may burn, but this court's now in session.
00:42:10What are the defendants charged with, Marshal?
00:42:13Your Honor, James Fallon accused these men of cutting trees on land they no longer own.
00:42:18That's right. Those claims are now the property of the United States government.
00:42:21How did the defendants plead?
00:42:24Guilty.
00:42:26Thirty days at hard labor.
00:42:28Marshal, I remand the prisoners to your custody
00:42:30and order you to see that the following sentence is carried out.
00:42:33They are to cut timber on government property.
00:42:35The logs are to be transported to Tidewater here at Redwood.
00:42:39Your Honor, what do you intend to do with those logs?
00:42:42Well, now, Section 7, paragraph 18 of the penal code states,
00:42:46Trinkets or other saleable objects produced by prisoners may be sold,
00:42:51and the monies therefrom given to them at the time of their release
00:42:54as an aid to rehabilitation.
00:42:56Logs forty feet long are not trinkets.
00:42:59This court is serving the ends of justice, sir, and you are held in contempt.
00:43:03Marshal, collect the gentleman's fine. One hundred dollars.
00:43:09All right.
00:43:11But for a hundred dollars, I want to say something.
00:43:14Two hundred dollars.
00:43:16Any further remarks, I'll make it three.
00:43:22Put this in your safe. It will more than cover the fine.
00:43:26Court's adjourned.
00:43:28The next thirty days, we must do six months' work. Night and day.
00:43:34And even on the Sabbath, we'll be lifting the ox from the ditch.
00:43:37We'll need fifty thousand dollars to save our land.
00:43:40Marshal, will you kindly rush the prisoners to the woods?
00:43:44Burning in the sea, bringing in the sea,
00:43:47We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sea,
00:43:52We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sea,
00:44:07Timbad!
00:44:11One week more, God willing, we'll have our claim money.
00:44:38My old lady and the kids are having a rough at home.
00:44:41Like I told you, you just have to wait for your money.
00:44:44That's no good.
00:44:44The partnership is fine on paper, but I need some cash.
00:44:47That goes for me, too.
00:44:48All the money I've got in the bank, I'm saving for more claim filing.
00:44:52Bunch of the boys are talking about heading back.
00:44:53Nobody wants to stay.
00:44:55That's the truth.
00:44:57Breaking up the team again, huh?
00:44:59Well, this time you can't leave, men.
00:45:01When the new application blanks get here, I'll need every one of you.
00:45:04The boys don't feel good about that either.
00:45:06About what?
00:45:06They don't like the raw deal you're giving these natives.
00:45:08What's the matter with you birds?
00:45:11Getting gooey?
00:45:12We came out here to work, not to steal.
00:45:14This is strictly legal.
00:45:15Yeah?
00:45:16There's a lot of talk that it ain't.
00:45:18Frenchy, take the boys over to the saloon.
00:45:22It won't work, Jim.
00:45:23All right.
00:45:27I'll meet you at the bank.
00:45:29Get out of here.
00:45:30That's why I hold it.
00:45:31I must go.
00:45:36Once you start that, you'll start hitting every week or so.
00:45:39Won't take long to whittle down your capital.
00:45:42Thinking again, huh?
00:45:43Yeah.
00:45:43Jim, remember that sawmill man, Greg?
00:45:46He'd be a pretty soft partner for a smart fellow like you.
00:45:51Stop thinking so hard, Frenchy.
00:45:53You'll have to get yourself a bad headache.
00:46:00Fallon's getting down to a shoestring.
00:46:02He's finally dipped into his claim money.
00:46:05Here's where I steer him to you for financing.
00:46:07You mean I finally get an introduction to the great Jim Fallon?
00:46:10The Fallon company becomes LaCroix and Greg.
00:46:12You call the shots, Frenchy.
00:46:14We're with you.
00:46:23Your soft partner draws a pretty hard contract.
00:46:26He really doesn't need you.
00:46:27It's a good deal, Fallon.
00:46:28Stop bluffing, Greg.
00:46:31Deceased.
00:46:32I get it.
00:46:33If anything happens to me, the Fallon company goes to you two, huh?
00:46:36Sign it, Jim.
00:46:37Greg here will release funds to your account.
00:46:39I just want you to know I can see through that swamp you call a brain.
00:46:44Jim's always suspicious.
00:46:46But you won't shove any knives in my back
00:46:48because you'll never get a stick to tidewater without me.
00:46:50How do you mean?
00:46:53That little secret is my life insurance.
00:46:55I don't want to impose on you, but do you mind looking after these girls
00:47:13so the rest of their baggage arrives?
00:47:15Oh, you know what they call a lumberjack?
00:47:19Stop for me, baby.
00:47:22My, you're strong.
00:47:27I've been sick.
00:47:31Move it down, move it down.
00:47:32Come on, I'll buy a drink.
00:47:33Oh, you're joking.
00:47:37Come on, Tina.
00:47:38All right, men.
00:47:42Have fun.
00:47:43The drinks are on the company.
00:47:47I have a walking machine.
00:47:49Let's dance.
00:47:50Are any of these boys married?
00:47:54I could drink your slipper full of white mule.
00:47:57Take Aggie.
00:47:58She's from Texas.
00:47:59Here.
00:48:01Fill it up.
00:48:01Little Dora Fee.
00:48:10I've been dreaming of you for days.
00:48:12I used to dance on a beer cake for dimes.
00:48:14Remember that big, swell-headed lumberjack
00:48:16who never had the dime?
00:48:18We're doing all right now, honey.
00:48:19Say, how's it feel to be Queen or Redwood City?
00:48:22Fine.
00:48:23If you're the king.
00:48:31The same old gym.
00:48:34Daisy, honey, we're going to be rich.
00:48:36Very rich.
00:48:37Just sign these, Dora Fee.
00:48:40Yep.
00:48:41The same old gym.
00:48:43What kind of last news at this time?
00:48:45Yeah, those wild westerners you warned me about
00:48:47try to cut my throat.
00:48:48This is just to give me a little protection.
00:48:50Mm-hmm.
00:48:59It's lucky for you I learned to write
00:49:01instead of read.
00:49:02Thanks, doll.
00:49:03Jasper!
00:49:05You saw the lady sign these.
00:49:07Notarizing.
00:49:14Well, I'm ready for a nice, warm bath.
00:49:19The tub's down the hall.
00:49:21What?
00:49:22Well, I'll be seeing you, honey.
00:49:24What?
00:49:24Oh, look.
00:49:25I'm going to Sacramento for a couple of days.
00:49:26You make yourself at home.
00:49:28Frenchie will look after you.
00:49:29Frenchie La Croix?
00:49:30Oh, sure.
00:49:31Be nice to her.
00:49:35Come in.
00:49:37Oh.
00:49:38Miss Fisher, may I present Sister Chadwick?
00:49:42Forget your tambourine, honey?
00:49:44I'm sorry, Jim.
00:49:45I didn't mean to intrude.
00:49:47Well, Daisy's an old friend.
00:49:50He means well-seasoned.
00:49:52Oh.
00:49:52Jim, I came to tell you, we've cut enough timber.
00:49:57Our logs will soon be at tidewater.
00:49:59Our faith has been realized.
00:50:01We'll be able to keep our lands.
00:50:04But my father and I wanted you to know
00:50:06if you want to stay here and work,
00:50:09we'll help.
00:50:11Goodbye, Miss Fisher.
00:50:13Goodbye, Jim.
00:50:14Jim.
00:50:16Jim, huh?
00:50:17Lucky for you, my father never owned a shotgun.
00:50:21What about hers?
00:50:22Believe me, Daisy, I'd rather have my head shot off by a fig
00:50:25than my soul saved by a Bixby.
00:50:27Have fun, girl.
00:50:28I'm the charming soubrette on the police gazette.
00:50:47I can dance with gestures and grace.
00:50:50I've a definite style and a beautiful smile.
00:50:53If by chance you glance at my face,
00:50:56the barbers, the cops, and first-nighters,
00:51:00they all have pictures of me.
00:51:03I'm sharing my fame with the fighters,
00:51:07John L. and Knockout McKee.
00:51:10I am known as the toast of the Barbary Coast
00:51:15and the kind you'll never forget.
00:51:18I'm a burly cute queen and you'll know what I mean
00:51:21if you read the police gazette.
00:51:24If you're feeling depressed,
00:51:45let me humbly suggest there's a way
00:51:47for you to forget.
00:51:49Simply turn to the page
00:51:52to the news of the stage
00:51:55when you read the police gazette.
00:51:58that.
00:52:17Oh, champagne.
00:52:19Mm-hmm.
00:52:20We'll drink to watch.
00:52:22You've got a lot of things in common.
00:52:26Yeah?
00:52:28Name one.
00:52:30Well, we've, uh,
00:52:31both been Jim Fallon's chumps.
00:52:35I'm through.
00:52:36How about you?
00:52:37What's rattling around in that head of yours?
00:52:39Look, Daisy,
00:52:41Jim's out of town.
00:52:42He's up to something.
00:52:42You're a part of it.
00:52:44What's going on?
00:52:44Why don't you ask Jim when he gets back?
00:52:48I'm paying cash money for information.
00:52:51I have a notion to tell Jim about this.
00:52:54You sty on the eye of a flea,
00:52:56on the thigh of a nid,
00:52:57on the neck of a gnat.
00:52:58Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:53:06Am I seeing things?
00:53:07That dam wasn't there last week.
00:53:09Not like that it wasn't,
00:53:10but the foundation's been there
00:53:11since the old mining days.
00:53:13Fallon.
00:53:13Jim Fallon.
00:53:15Well, he sure got the colonists blocked.
00:53:17Not just the colonists.
00:53:19Nobody's running any more logs
00:53:20to Tidewater without my say-so.
00:53:22But we're partners.
00:53:23Correct.
00:53:24And I've got you right
00:53:25where you thought you had me.
00:53:27You bought that dam with my money.
00:53:29I don't own it.
00:53:30I just got permission to control the river with it.
00:53:33Alan, you've gone too far.
00:53:37No.
00:53:37My good health is very important to you boys.
00:53:40Anything happens to me, the owner of that dam will see that you never get a log to market.
00:53:44Oh, by the way, I brought back another surprise for you from Sacramento.
00:53:48Be in town this afternoon.
00:53:49I have an appointment with Judge Crenshaw.
00:53:56Franchise for the dam is valid.
00:53:59Prior property right established by the miners when this was gold rush country.
00:54:02We've got to locate the owner.
00:54:04I'm sure if he knew what it means to...
00:54:05Well, the owner's a woman, Dora Figg.
00:54:07Dora Figg?
00:54:10Sacramento Post Office Box is the only address.
00:54:14I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do. Absolutely nothing.
00:54:17Thank you, Judge Crenshaw, for making that clear.
00:54:20So help me, Jim. I can hardly keep this gun from going off right in your face.
00:54:23Don't blame me. You're the one that led these sheep right into the middle of this wolf fight.
00:54:28Judge Crenshaw, this is for you.
00:54:31From the head of the Department of Interior.
00:54:35It is my considered opinion that the Fallon Company can, without penalty,
00:54:39proceed to take possession of and clear of their land.
00:54:42You mean they can cut down our trees?
00:54:44I'm afraid they can.
00:54:46Franchise, you and Greg set the boys to work right now,
00:54:48possessing and clearing the land.
00:54:50You see, Sister Chadwick, you and your friends could have made a pile of money.
00:54:54Didn't you ever learn any other word except money?
00:54:59You're getting in a rut, Jim.
00:55:01You better look out, because when a rut gets deep enough, it becomes a grave.
00:55:04You've got a couple of partners liable to put you in it.
00:55:07The dark gets deep enough, for with me alive.
00:55:22Help for the andrews.
00:55:31Oh, alive with me.
00:55:39Amen.
00:55:41O Lord, hear our last prayer in this temple.
00:55:53If its destruction be by thy will,
00:55:56then to thy higher judgment we bow.
00:56:01Open the hearts of each of us
00:56:03to speak forgiveness for these men of greed
00:56:06who have not been touched by thy understanding.
00:56:11Amen.
00:56:17Don't take any backtalks. We've got the law with us.
00:56:32Get out of there, you fools!
00:56:34You're in the line of fall!
00:56:36We must leave.
00:56:39It's our home.
00:56:42My place is here.
00:56:44If they want to go down with the ship, it's their hard luck.
00:56:46It'd be murder.
00:56:47Fallon's company. He gets life for murder. We get the company.
00:56:54The years that grew into these trees make them long and tedious to saw.
00:57:00There's time to get our friends, Judge Crenshaw and the Marshal.
00:57:03Go on.
00:57:06Hurry!
00:57:07Hurry!
00:57:08the men.
00:57:09You undercut that tree to hit the cabin.
00:57:10That's right.
00:57:11Stop the sawing!
00:57:12Where's the Bixby's?
00:57:13How should I know?
00:57:14Where's the Bixby's?
00:57:15How should I know?
00:57:16How should I know?
00:57:18Who's the boy?
00:57:20Who's the boy?
00:57:21All right.
00:57:22Who's the boy?
00:57:23Who's the boy?
00:57:24Who's the boy?
00:57:25Come on.
00:57:26Come on.
00:57:27Let's go.
00:57:28Look, the man's new.
00:57:29What's the matter with you men?
00:57:30You undercut that tree to hit the cabin.
00:57:31That's right.
00:57:32Stop the sawing!
00:57:34Where's the Bixby's?
00:57:35How should I now?
00:57:49I'm sorry, but you may lose your house.
00:57:58My father's in there!
00:58:00Stay here.
00:58:05Let's go!
00:58:21Oh!
00:58:35Let's go.
00:59:05Jim, you're under arrest.
00:59:25Fallon orders to fall that tree.
00:59:29Look, don't order him.
00:59:30It's your company, Fallon.
00:59:34You're the man that'll have to face the indictment for murder.
00:59:37Trying me already, huh?
00:59:38No, you'll get a fair trial, but not from me.
00:59:40I'm prejudiced.
00:59:41I'll have to disqualify myself.
00:59:43But you'll get your justice.
00:59:47Take him to Eureka and hold him without bail.
00:59:49Fallon will hang for this.
01:00:00What?
01:00:01It was premeditated murder.
01:00:05That's not true.
01:00:07He meant my father no harm.
01:00:11Jim Fallon missed his life trying to save him.
01:00:13I saw him.
01:00:17You saw him, too.
01:00:18Well, he's still responsible for the actions of the Fallon company.
01:00:22His own woods boss will testify against him.
01:00:29I'll testify for him.
01:00:30Marshal, let Fallon go.
01:00:37Can't hold a man to answer when the chief witness is for the defense.
01:00:40Release him.
01:00:50Thanks.
01:00:51My people forgive those who trespass against us.
01:00:55My father, most of all.
01:00:56I'll see you.
01:00:59I'll see you.
01:01:17Bye.
01:01:23Bye.
01:01:24Bye.
01:01:24Oh, my God.
01:01:54Brother Woodward has just told me a friend she's been making threats against Jim's life.
01:02:09Why should you care?
01:02:10Anybody shoot Jim Fallon, be the most popular feller in town.
01:02:13You're the marshal. Don't let it happen.
01:02:14Why?
01:02:15Just don't let it happen.
01:02:16Well, by golly, I...
01:02:18Say, you're not in love with that no good, are you?
01:02:21Well, girl, you're crazy.
01:02:25You see a big Tom Leopard out in the woods and you don't get close.
01:02:28That is, unless you happen to be a lady leopard.
01:02:31He's been gentle enough with me.
01:02:33That's when he does, he's creeping.
01:02:34Now, you listen to me, girl.
01:02:36A Marion Parson could straightjack at Jim Fallon and lock him in a box in the bottom of the sea.
01:02:40He'd still slip the gaff and run off with the wedding presents.
01:02:45Men have been known to change.
01:02:46Oh, lady, even I have been given up by women reformers.
01:02:51The biggest mistake a woman can make is to pick the wrong man and try to make him right.
01:02:55Why don't you just go off somewhere and have a good cry and forget him?
01:02:59I'm reminding you of your duty, marshal.
01:03:03See that he's protected.
01:03:06At least you had started.
01:03:07What do we do?
01:03:08Are you sure?
01:03:09Yes.
01:03:09It feels like any minute.
01:03:19Take her to the hotel.
01:03:21Room 204.
01:03:23204?
01:03:24That's Jim Fallon's room.
01:03:26Why not?
01:03:27This is all his fault.
01:03:37See those lighted windows upstairs?
01:03:39They're his.
01:03:40You get up in the land office ruins.
01:03:42Maybe you can pot him from there.
01:03:44Charlie, he doesn't know you.
01:03:47You take the saloon.
01:03:49Baldock, I'll stay out here.
01:03:51You get on the hotel porch.
01:03:53He comes through the lobby.
01:03:54Signal me.
01:03:55One of us has got to get him.
01:04:09Come on upstairs.
01:04:36Now what have I done?
01:04:38I want to talk to you.
01:04:50Hey, stranger.
01:04:52What'll that be?
01:04:53Double strength.
01:04:54Your sister will be all right.
01:05:14What's that?
01:05:15Baby.
01:05:15Baby.
01:05:17This is one thing you can't pin on me.
01:05:19Looks like you and the stork arrived at the same time.
01:05:24What?
01:05:25Bill, it's a boy.
01:05:27Street was no place for a baby to be born.
01:05:29Whose baby?
01:05:30Where can I find some water?
01:05:32Right down the hall, right behind you.
01:05:35What is this?
01:05:36A hotel or a nursery?
01:05:39A baby was just born here, thanks to Jim.
01:05:42Congratulations.
01:05:43What do you mean, thanks to Jim?
01:05:45I'd better get out of here.
01:05:46It might be catching.
01:05:49Now what's this all about?
01:05:50You and your land grabbers forced them out of their home.
01:05:53I had nothing to do with it.
01:05:55Too bad his father can't be here.
01:05:56I had nothing to do with that either.
01:06:04So for all I care, you can stay on your pious pedestal.
01:06:07I've never placed myself on any pedestal.
01:06:10I'm too full of bad temper.
01:06:18What a girl.
01:06:20Why, you chigger-bitten Don Juan.
01:06:22You just try pitching hay with her and I'll shoot that lump you call a head right out from under your hat.
01:06:26Forget it.
01:06:27I tried once, got frostbite in the middle of July.
01:06:30That don't mean she's not stuck on you.
01:06:33You're crazy.
01:06:36Yeah, maybe so.
01:06:37When you signed that deal with Frenchie, it was heads you die and tails you get killed.
01:06:41Who do you think's got me looking after you?
01:06:43Alicia Chadwick.
01:06:45I don't believe you.
01:06:47Why should you?
01:06:48It wouldn't mean anything to you.
01:06:50You're going to have everything you wanted.
01:06:52Going to be a millionaire.
01:06:54Sure.
01:06:54Why don't you tell the truth just once?
01:06:58Why don't you come clean and admit that all this wine you're guzzling is as sour as vinegar?
01:07:03Tell me more.
01:07:04You stinking steak jumper.
01:07:06I'm only trying to save your hide.
01:07:09It's not because I want to, but I promised her.
01:07:13You're still like me, don't you?
01:07:14Come on, sweetheart.
01:07:19I want you to watch me thank Alicia for sending you back to me.
01:07:24Let's go.
01:07:25Get back, Buck.
01:07:38Get back, Buck.
01:07:53Get back, Buck.
01:08:05Come on.
01:08:05Come on.
01:08:06I love you.
01:08:15Come on.
01:08:16You can't love this girl.
01:08:46He understood.
01:08:48Look where it got him.
01:08:51He lost his life protecting you.
01:08:55He should have looked out for himself.
01:09:01When I was a child, I was taught to believe that there was a...
01:09:05a God-given seed of good at the root of everything alive.
01:09:10But I'm beginning to doubt that now.
01:09:14There isn't the slightest bit of good in you.
01:09:21There isn't a lot of good in you.
01:09:28There isn't a lot of good in you.
01:09:30There isn't a lot of good in you.
01:09:34There isn't a lot of good in you.
01:09:41There's a lot of good in you.
01:09:46I got your message.
01:10:10What do you want?
01:10:11Come in.
01:10:11Come in.
01:10:17Sit down, Judge.
01:10:20Look, I figured out how you can stop Frenchy and Greg from cutting on that land.
01:10:24I had that figured out long ago.
01:10:26But you'd have to confess to subterfuge and attempt to defraud when you file those claims for homesteads.
01:10:31And that's a felony.
01:10:33Sit down and draw up an affidavit.
01:10:36What?
01:10:37You heard me.
01:10:40It'll hold all your claim money for forfeit.
01:10:42What do you want me to do?
01:10:43Burst out in tears?
01:10:45Yeah.
01:10:46I've been trying to make a dent in you ever since I got here.
01:10:49Stop trying or you'll break your axe.
01:10:51Get those colonists to logging so they can file.
01:10:55Will you take care of Dora Fig and the dam that's blocking them?
01:10:58Let's pretend I'm Dora Fig.
01:11:00You thought of everything, didn't you?
01:11:03I admire what you're doing, Fallon.
01:11:05Then keep your mouth shut about it.
01:11:06Around everybody.
01:11:08What do you think Frenchy and Greg are going to do when they find out?
01:11:10Just stand there with their hands folded?
01:11:12Just make out that affidavit, will you?
01:11:16There.
01:11:18I'll give you back your good luck piece.
01:11:20You'll need it with those tree wolves.
01:11:22You'll need it with those tree wolves.
01:11:24Thanks, Judge.
01:11:26Oh, uh, I've been eating some eating money, too.
01:11:29Want to cover that?
01:11:31It's covered.
01:11:33High man deals.
01:11:36Come on, I'll teach you to think of your soul instead of your belly.
01:11:42Check those through to San Francisco.
01:11:47Hate to see you leave, honey.
01:11:49Sure gonna miss you.
01:11:51Uh-uh.
01:11:52You'll be beating the drums while she's singing her hymns.
01:11:55Happy trip.
01:11:56Oh, uh, just Dora Fig these, will you?
01:11:58You'll have to talk to Frenchy about little Dora Fig.
01:12:01Come again?
01:12:03I sell the damn to Frenchy for $25,000.
01:12:07Oh, Daisy, honey.
01:12:10That's not funny.
01:12:17What's the matter?
01:12:19Wrong flavor?
01:12:24You're telling the truth.
01:12:26That property was mine.
01:12:28After all, I couldn't live forever on your promises.
01:12:32What promise did I ever break to you?
01:12:35You never broke any.
01:12:37But you never kept any.
01:12:39It took me 10 years to get the stars out of my eyes.
01:12:42All the rugs I helped you pull out from under the suckers.
01:12:45I learned.
01:12:48Oh, boy, how I learned.
01:12:50Enough to pull the whole floor right out from under you.
01:12:56Boy.
01:12:58Knock me sky high.
01:12:59You'll land on your feet.
01:13:01You always do.
01:13:02That $25,000 will repay me for all the years I've wasted.
01:13:06Yeah, ma'am.
01:13:08I finally got me a stake.
01:13:14Got yourself educated and well-heeled, huh?
01:13:18Nice work, Daisy.
01:13:20I'm patting myself on the back, too, for being a good teacher.
01:13:25So long, pal.
01:13:26No hard feelings.
01:13:35Thanks, Brother Fallon.
01:13:36Judge Crenshaw told us you led us through the dam.
01:13:38Blessings on me this beautiful day.
01:13:40Frenchy bought the dam out from under me.
01:13:43You're choking the river with logs for nothing.
01:13:45Is this another of thy tricks?
01:13:47The spots of the leopard do not change.
01:13:49Well, it's time to change yours.
01:13:51Why don't you men get some bristles on your back and start the fight?
01:13:54It's your only chance to spring those logs and get back your land.
01:13:57You can't pray that dam out of the way.
01:14:00No, but we can get around it.
01:14:03That old mining railroad on our property.
01:14:05It wouldn't take much new track to bypass the dam and haul the logs to the river below it.
01:14:09Sister, that'll do it.
01:14:11We'll need some rails and tools.
01:14:13I'll swindle somebody out of them.
01:14:15Swindle?
01:14:16Borrow.
01:14:17Sometimes it's all the same.
01:14:19How many of you men worked on this purge rack last time?
01:14:21Uh, Judge Crenshaw donated this.
01:14:24Feed your boys good.
01:14:26They work faster.
01:14:27That was very kind of him.
01:14:29And you, too, for helping us.
01:14:31Uh, Sister Chadwick, just between us leopards.
01:14:34Keep watching my spots.
01:14:36Island's almost to the river with that track.
01:14:47Yeah.
01:14:48If it gets there, we're out of business.
01:14:51Yeah.
01:14:52The way they're cutting timber.
01:14:53How many trestles are there?
01:14:54Three.
01:14:55Show me the one nearest the river.
01:14:56How many trestles are there?
01:14:58Three.
01:14:59Show me the one nearest the river.
01:15:01To the river.
01:15:04Yeah.
01:15:05The way they're cutting timber.
01:15:06How many trestles are there?
01:15:07Three.
01:15:08Show me the one nearest the river.
01:15:10Marie, show me the one nearest the river.
01:15:35Come in.
01:15:37My first time in a caboose.
01:15:39Sister Wallace.
01:15:40Sister Blackburn went to town with the baby.
01:15:45How are we doing?
01:15:46Just fine.
01:15:47Five Carlos have gone already.
01:15:48And this one goes this afternoon.
01:15:51I hate to admit it, but thanks to Brother Fallon.
01:15:54It is good to have him on our side, isn't it?
01:15:57It makes one feel like the strength of Jeroboam was with us.
01:16:00He must mean Jeremiah. Jeroboam was a scamp.
01:16:03I guess I mean both.
01:16:05See thee later.
01:16:07Oh, tell Mr. Fallon.
01:16:09I'll be here until supper time if he needs me.
01:16:11All right.
01:16:12Let's go.
01:16:17What?
01:16:51The next one's your cave.
01:16:56I thought that one would do it.
01:17:01What was that?
01:17:03We'd better find out.
01:17:11He's right in there.
01:17:12Quiet.
01:17:13You might have a gun.
01:17:14Who is it?
01:17:17Better speak up fast.
01:17:21Call on us, huh?
01:17:32We'll never find him in this brush.
01:17:34We'd better get a train over that chustle quick.
01:17:36We'll never find him in this brush.
01:17:51Release the brake on the caboose.
01:17:52While you're at it, lock the doors.
01:17:53We'll take care of the end cars.
01:17:54Then we'll be além.
01:17:55We'll be game.
01:18:07He's Bennett.
01:18:07Let's go.
01:18:07Let's go.
01:18:07Let's go.
01:18:10Let's go.
01:18:40Let's go.
01:19:10Let's go.
01:19:11Hey, boss!
01:19:12What happened?
01:19:17They said one more train would crash it.
01:19:32Crash what?
01:19:34It's the third trestle near the river.
01:19:39Sounds like a train now.
01:19:40Can't leave.
01:19:41The locomotive's not due to one o'clock.
01:19:45Get him to a doctor.
01:19:47Boss, it is a train.
01:19:50Where's Mr. Chadwick?
01:19:51She's in that caboose.
01:19:53Let's go.
01:19:54Let's go.
01:19:55Let's go.
01:19:56Let's go.
01:19:58Let's go.
01:19:59Let's go.
01:20:00Let's go.
01:20:01Let's go.
01:20:03Let's go.
01:20:04Let's go.
01:20:05Let's go.
01:20:06Let's go.
01:20:08Let's go.
01:20:09Let's go.
01:20:10Let's go.
01:20:11Let's go.
01:20:12Let's go.
01:20:13Let's go.
01:20:14Let's go.
01:20:15Let's go.
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01:20:17Let's go.
01:20:18Let's go.
01:20:19Let's go.
01:20:20Let's go.
01:20:21Let's go.
01:20:22Let's go.
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01:20:24Let's go.
01:20:25Let's go.
01:20:26Let's go.
01:20:27Let's go.
01:20:28Let's go.
01:20:29Let's go.
01:20:30Let's go.
01:20:31Let's go.
01:20:32Let's go.
01:20:33Let's go.
01:20:34Let's go.
01:20:35Let's go.
01:20:36Let's go.
01:20:37Let's go.
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01:20:39Let's go.
01:20:40Let's go.
01:20:41Let's go.
01:20:42Let's go.
01:20:43Let's go.
01:20:44Let's go.
01:20:45Let's go.
01:21:15Let's go.
01:21:45Let's go.
01:22:15Let's go.
01:22:45Let's go.
01:23:15Let's go.
01:23:45Let's go.
01:23:47Wait!
01:23:49May God forgive us, brother Fallon.
01:23:51Lead us.
01:23:53We'll follow.
01:23:55Come on.
01:23:57The men with the dynamite come with me.
01:24:03Tiny keep us covered all the time.
01:24:05Right.
01:24:07You know the job we have to do.
01:24:17You know the job we have to do.
01:24:19That one's taken over the dam.
01:24:21That one's taken over the dam.
01:24:23I think he's gonna dynamite it.
01:24:25They're gonna blow it up.
01:24:27Quiet, what's that?
01:24:29Don't move.
01:24:31The hand of judgment's upon you.
01:24:33You brothers with the rope get busy.
01:24:35You brothers with the rope get busy.
01:24:45Stand the aside, sisters, while I use the stone.
01:24:53I don't feel a bit wicked.
01:24:55Bring me another stone.
01:24:57I don't.
01:25:07I don't.
01:25:09Don't move.
01:25:10Don't move.
01:25:11You're on.
01:25:13Don't move.
01:25:15I don't.
01:25:17You führen.
01:25:19You.
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