Sprawling drama is uneven because you wouldn't expect some of the characters and the story line to go down the path it does.
Kirk Douglas is in fine form as the unscrupulous lumber barren smitten by a Quaker-like woman in California. Her father winds up dead after a tree from the Douglas lumber company comes down on the house and crushes him. He knew the tree was coming. Douglas gets blamed for his death thanks in part to two of his vicious partners.
In addition, what makes this uneven is the part taken by Edgar Buchanan. Buchanan, as a gunslinger, come on. What gives here? When Buchanan goes with Douglas to Indiana, he is taken with that religion and becomes sheriff of the town.
This is just too hard to fathom and the ending is as predictable as they come.
Kirk Douglas is in fine form as the unscrupulous lumber barren smitten by a Quaker-like woman in California. Her father winds up dead after a tree from the Douglas lumber company comes down on the house and crushes him. He knew the tree was coming. Douglas gets blamed for his death thanks in part to two of his vicious partners.
In addition, what makes this uneven is the part taken by Edgar Buchanan. Buchanan, as a gunslinger, come on. What gives here? When Buchanan goes with Douglas to Indiana, he is taken with that religion and becomes sheriff of the town.
This is just too hard to fathom and the ending is as predictable as they come.