Director: WILLIAM KEIGHLEY. Screenplay: Norman Reilly Raine. Story: Charles Milne, Peter Belden. Adapted from the novel by James Oliver Curwood. Uncredited screenplay contributor: William Jacobs. Photographed in Technicolor by Tony Gaudio. Associate cinematographers from the Technicolor company: Wilfrid M. Cline, William V. Skall, Allen Davey. Technicolor color consultant: Natalie Kalmus. Film editor: Jack Killifer. Art director: Carl Jules Weyl. Music: Max Steiner. Music director: Leo F. Forbstein. Assistant director: Chuck Hansen. Associate producer: Louis F. Edelman. Executive producers: Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner.
Copyright 21 December 1936 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. and The Vitaphone Corporation. New York opening at the Strand: 10 January 1937. U.S. release: 16 January 1937. 80 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Ruthless timber baron declares "war" on his rivals.
COMMENT: An "A" feature starring Beverly Roberts, who made about twenty "B" movies in her brief cinema career between 1936 and 1939. This is certainly the best role of her Hollywood interlude and the part that most fans will remember today. She's so charismatic in fact, that the rest of the players tend to remain in the background, though George Brent makes for a more than serviceable hero and Robert Barrat authoritatively handles a leading role as the fast- talking, money-grubbing quasi-villain of the piece.
Mind you, the whole lot will be seen as evildoers by today's environmental standards, but that was not the case in 1937. The real villain is our old friend Barton MacLane. El Brendel is along for some strained comic relief and Alan Hale is singularly miscast as a Finnish lumberjack. Never mind, there's action a-plenty in picturesquely unusual real locations, captured in nice Technicolor photography.
Director William Keighley who was later bounced from "The Adventures of Robin Hood" seems determined to prove that he can handle action with the best of them, though I suspect a specialist like Breezy Eason was actually involved.
Copyright 21 December 1936 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. and The Vitaphone Corporation. New York opening at the Strand: 10 January 1937. U.S. release: 16 January 1937. 80 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Ruthless timber baron declares "war" on his rivals.
COMMENT: An "A" feature starring Beverly Roberts, who made about twenty "B" movies in her brief cinema career between 1936 and 1939. This is certainly the best role of her Hollywood interlude and the part that most fans will remember today. She's so charismatic in fact, that the rest of the players tend to remain in the background, though George Brent makes for a more than serviceable hero and Robert Barrat authoritatively handles a leading role as the fast- talking, money-grubbing quasi-villain of the piece.
Mind you, the whole lot will be seen as evildoers by today's environmental standards, but that was not the case in 1937. The real villain is our old friend Barton MacLane. El Brendel is along for some strained comic relief and Alan Hale is singularly miscast as a Finnish lumberjack. Never mind, there's action a-plenty in picturesquely unusual real locations, captured in nice Technicolor photography.
Director William Keighley who was later bounced from "The Adventures of Robin Hood" seems determined to prove that he can handle action with the best of them, though I suspect a specialist like Breezy Eason was actually involved.