The Big Trees (1952)
The same year Kirk Douglas made the classic masterpiece The Bad and the Beautiful, he also made the low-budget, forgotten movie The Big Trees. He took no salary for the film as a way to get out of his Warner Brothers contract, and since he also admitted that it wasn’t a good movie, I don’t feel bad for criticizing it. You know I’m a Kirk Douglas fan, so if there are a handful of his movies I don’t care for, I’m sure you—and he—will forgive me.
Kirk plays a lumberman who’s trying to get his hands on some potentially lucrative California redwoods. The Northern Californian town wants him to leave their trees alone, but he values money over heritage and nature—until he gets interested in Eve Miller, one of the vocal local girls. Since he’s already involved with Patrice Wymore, he’s got more than just a fight for the trees on his hands!
The Big Trees reminded me of Tulsa, a movie starring Susan Hayward that pins greed against nature. Both films aren’t very good quality and have pretty predictable stories, with little disasters thrown in to keep audiences interested, or awake. But, unless you’re die-hard fans of the stars and insist on seeing every single one of their movies, there’s no reason to sit through them. They typify the “old movies” people who don’t like old movies make fun of. At least in The Big Trees, you get to see Kirk Douglas doing some cool stunts, as he’s been known to do. Still, you’re better off with Lonely Are the Brave.
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Kirk plays a lumberman who’s trying to get his hands on some potentially lucrative California redwoods. The Northern Californian town wants him to leave their trees alone, but he values money over heritage and nature—until he gets interested in Eve Miller, one of the vocal local girls. Since he’s already involved with Patrice Wymore, he’s got more than just a fight for the trees on his hands!
The Big Trees reminded me of Tulsa, a movie starring Susan Hayward that pins greed against nature. Both films aren’t very good quality and have pretty predictable stories, with little disasters thrown in to keep audiences interested, or awake. But, unless you’re die-hard fans of the stars and insist on seeing every single one of their movies, there’s no reason to sit through them. They typify the “old movies” people who don’t like old movies make fun of. At least in The Big Trees, you get to see Kirk Douglas doing some cool stunts, as he’s been known to do. Still, you’re better off with Lonely Are the Brave.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Juhi Thaker" for posting!
More Kirk Douglas movies here!