The Big Trees is a 1952 film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist.
This was Kirk Douglas's final contracted film with Warner Brothers after a long period of rough relationships between him and the company.
The film has fallen into the public domain after Warner Brothers did not renew their copyrights for the film. The reasons for this action are still unknown.
In 1900, lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) greedily eyes the big tree...
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The Big Trees is a 1952 film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist.
This was Kirk Douglas's final contracted film with Warner Brothers after a long period of rough relationships between him and the company.
The film has fallen into the public domain after Warner Brothers did not renew their copyrights for the film. The reasons for this action are still unknown.
In 1900, lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) greedily eyes the big trees in the virgin region of northern California. The land is already settled by, among others, a religious group led by Elder Bixby (Charles Meredith). Jim becomes infatuated with Bixby's daughter, Alicia (Eve Miller), though that does not change his plan to cheat the homesteaders. When Jim's right-hand man, Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) finds out, he changes sides and leads the locals in resisting Jim.
Elder Bixby is killed when a big sequoia tree is chopped down by Jim's men and accidentally falls on his cabin. Jim's desperate attempt to rescue...
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