8pm Friday BIG TREES - 1952 Western Drama starring Kirk Douglasand Charles Meredith. A corrupt lumberjack wants to cut down a forest of giant redwood trees much to the horro of the local Quaker community.
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon finds that other sharks are at his own heels, and forms an unlikely alliance.
TRIVIA
“Big Trees” was Kirk Douglas' final film for Warner Brothers, a film he did for free in exchange for the studio agreeing to release him from his long-term contract.
MOVIE QUOTES
- Daisy Fisher: [to Frenchy] You stye on the eye of a flea on a thigh of a nit on the neck of a gnat!
- Jim Fallon: Stop thinking so hard, Frenchy. You're liable to get yourself a bad headache.
- Judge Crenshaw: Mr. Burns, I've heard you were an honest man and good with a gun. But I also heard you confessed to weakness for liquor, cards and women.
- Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Not women, your Honor. They ain't for the weak.
