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'Timberjack' is a 1955 American Trucolor lumberjack Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael and Chill Wills.

Tim Chipman is an honest lumberman who returns home to find his father murdered. Chipman gets his own back by setting the family timber company against ruthless competitor Croft Brunner. It seems that Brunner is also a rival for the heart of saloon keeper Lynne Tilton, but she is won over to Chipman's side when she discovers that Brunner was also responsible for the death of her father.

Cast



* Sterling Hayden as Tim Chipman

* Vera Ralston as Lynne Tilton

* David Brian as Croft Brunner

* Adolphe Menjou as 'Sweetwater' Tilton

* Hoagy Carmichael as Jingles

* Chill Wills as Steve Riika

* Jim Davis as Poole

* Howard Petrie as 'Axe-Handle' Ole

* Ian MacDonald as Pauquette

* Elisha Cook Jr. as Punky (as Elisha Cook)

* Karl 'Killer' Davis as Red Bush (as Karl Davis)

* Wally Cassell as Veazie

* Tex Terry as Charlie

Production



'Timberjack' was filmed in Glacier National Park and Western Montana using Trucolor film technology.Movie Review: 'At Loew's State" 'New York Times', March 10, 1955 https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review ?res=990DFFD6143EE53ABC4852DFB566838E649EDE Sterling Hayden and Elisha Cook Jr. would star in Stanley Kubrick's 'The Killing' a year later. Adolphe Menjou later appeared in Kubrick's Paths of Glory 1957.

See also



* List of American films of 1955

* Sterling Hayden filmography

References




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