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Big Timber

Big Timber

19501h 0mNR

Overview

A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Written by Warren Wilson
Produced by Lindsley Parsons
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Top Cast

Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

Jimmy

Jeff Donnell

Jeff Donnell

Sally

Lyn Thomas

Lyn Thomas

June

Gordon Jones

Gordon Jones

Jocko

T

Tom Greenway

Rocky

Robert Shayne

Robert Shayne

Dixon

Ted Hecht

Ted Hecht

Bert

Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot

Logger #1

Themes & Keywords

logging camp

About Big Timber

Big Timber is a adventure, drama film released in 1950 exploring themes of logging camp. Directed by Jean Yarbrough, it stars Roddy McDowall, Jeff Donnell, Lyn Thomas. A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside.

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