Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon, a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from California's famous giant redwood trees. The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by a religious colony that beg him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias. Initially undeterred he ignores their pleas but soon discovers that there are others, even more ruthless than himself, who also want to oust the settlers. With violent confrontation inevitable, Fallon slowly comes to question his own unscrupulous nature, and finally makes an unexpected alliance.

Released in 1952, Douglas is at his dynamic best in this beautifully photographed film set in picturesque Northern California.

Directed by Felix E. Feist, Produced by Louis F. Edelman, Original Music by Heinz Roemheld Cinematography by Bert Glennon

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