Product Details

• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: World Vision Home Entertainment/Republic
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007ICSXM

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Plot Summary...Tim Shipman returns to his father's logging company only to find his father has been killed, money is owed...... Staring; Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael, Chill Wills, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie, Ian MacDonald, Elisha Cook Jr.,Karl "Killer" Davis, Wally Cassell, Tex Terry, George Marshall

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lumbering lumber movie masquerading as an Oater, April 25, 2011

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Spike Owen "John Rouse Merriott Chard" (Birmingham, England.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timberjack (VHS Tape)

I just can't sell this movie folks, I thought it was dreadful. I'm someone who is normally content with both director {Joseph Kane} and star {Sterling Hayden} but here they are mired in weak plotting, bad acting and even worse accents. It also purports to be something of a mystery, which is daft since there isn't one!. Flimsy fights come and go, as do cheese laden songs, while the dialogue is as stilted {read from auto-cue it looks like} as can be. Republic Pictures do have many a fine B movie in the locker, but this isn't worthy of Z movie status.

The plot sees Hayden as Tim Chipman, who returns home to find his father, owner of the family logging company, has been murdered. With money owed and a shifty rival in the offering, can Tim solve the mystery, fight off the baddies and once again move logs? Adapted from a novel written by Dan Cushman, of which I haven't read, I honestly don't know if the source material was any good to begin with? But this just doesn't work, either as an interesting story or as a competently executed one. Some decent train sequences catch the eye, and the location work at Glacier National Park is pleasing, if not helped by the less than standard Trucolor print. But really it's not even a time filler of a picture. 3/10

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Passable 50's action yarn, February 23, 2005

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F. J. Harvey "Cricket ,country music and a go... (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timberjack (VHS Tape)

This is based on the sturdy if unmemorable novel of the same name by Dan Cushman ,and in turn is a sturdy if unmemorable movie . It moves the story from Canada to Montana and introduces a musical element that only slows down the story /
Sterling Hayden -whose performance is only marginally less woooden than the trees he spends his life cutting down -plays Tim Chipman who is seeking to restore the fortunes of the family logging enterprise while battling the villain ( an adequate ,but no more David Brian ) while striving to win the hand of Lynne .The last character has been transformed from the shrewd and tough store opwner of the novel into a saloon owner-singer which provides an opportunity for several pallid songs that serve only to slow down the action and is woefully acted by the podgy and stodgy Vera Ralston
The scenery is breathtaking and the fight scenes are brisk ;add a nice performance from Hoagey Carmichael as Ralston's pianist and a nice turn from Adolphe Menjou as her flambuoyant loquacious and drunken father and the result is a brisk time filler that will not linger long in the memory