Law of the Timber

With his partner dead, Jack Holmes has been trying to revive his timber company. He has a government contract in hand, and starts hiring the usual bunch of stereotypes, plus the oddity of Hal Brazeale, who obviously has never done a day's worth of hard labor in his life. But there are squatters in the valley who won't be moved, and Holmes gets blown up, leaving his daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, to fulfill the contract. The squatters are gotten rid of, the men seem enthusiastic, but some one is sabotaging the delivery. Why can it be, and why?

Someone must have lit a fire under director Bernard B. Ray, because this one moves at a good clip. Part of that is cinematographer Jack Greenhalgh, who keeps the camera moving. Editor Carl Himm also keeps the tempo up. But the dialogue is corny, the dialogue is directed poorly despite a practiced cast, and the train wreck is some of the worst model work I've seen in a long time. With Monte Blue, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Humbert, and Milburn Morante.