Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaSome Easterners intend to seize a tract of valuable timber land. Hoppy must try to stop them before they blow up a major dam.Some Easterners intend to seize a tract of valuable timber land. Hoppy must try to stop them before they blow up a major dam.Some Easterners intend to seize a tract of valuable timber land. Hoppy must try to stop them before they blow up a major dam.
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- Sceneggiatura
- Star
The Guardsmen Quartet
- Singing Lumbermen
- (as the Guardsmen)
Walter Bacon
- Barfly
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Horace B. Carpenter
- Barfly
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Jess Cavin
- Logger
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Tex Cooper
- Barfly
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Edging on for A feature production values, tho economies do occasionally show - off screen explosion, limited time with the real donkey engine or the vintage locomotive. It's not all that strong in the scripting line either.
At the logging camp run by Victor Jory, with a check shirt over his padded vest and a thick Frog accent, another logger has been injured and Tom Tyler (obviously up to no good) has called the men out.
Hoppy, California and Johnny Nelson help out, along with Stewart's rail flat car full of Fighting (& singing) Kinkajous
Much logging activity, including an ambitious montage and Hoppy and Johnny actually finishing off downing a modest size trunk. Another of the deception plots cross cuts Hoppy and the boys on the rail hand car pursued by Jory's train and Stewart racing on horseback to tell the loggers the truth. Climax has our heroes riding the timber high line with Hoppy diving into the lake and disposing of the fire in the hole, where the bad hats are planning on blowing up the dam.
Players of the class of Tyler and Nilsson are punching below their weight but they and the timber scenics add. Technical work is excellent, outside of obvious process photography.
Jory does the same character in LUMBERJACK, which must have helped with stock footage.
There's even an explicit eco-theme, with J Farrel McDonald insisting on planting a tree for every one he chops down, unlike the heavies who covert his timber.
Certainly one of the better Hoppys.
At the logging camp run by Victor Jory, with a check shirt over his padded vest and a thick Frog accent, another logger has been injured and Tom Tyler (obviously up to no good) has called the men out.
Hoppy, California and Johnny Nelson help out, along with Stewart's rail flat car full of Fighting (& singing) Kinkajous
Much logging activity, including an ambitious montage and Hoppy and Johnny actually finishing off downing a modest size trunk. Another of the deception plots cross cuts Hoppy and the boys on the rail hand car pursued by Jory's train and Stewart racing on horseback to tell the loggers the truth. Climax has our heroes riding the timber high line with Hoppy diving into the lake and disposing of the fire in the hole, where the bad hats are planning on blowing up the dam.
Players of the class of Tyler and Nilsson are punching below their weight but they and the timber scenics add. Technical work is excellent, outside of obvious process photography.
Jory does the same character in LUMBERJACK, which must have helped with stock footage.
There's even an explicit eco-theme, with J Farrel McDonald insisting on planting a tree for every one he chops down, unlike the heavies who covert his timber.
Certainly one of the better Hoppys.
There's not really any such thing as a bad Hoppy film, but this one comes close, for a start Russell Hayden's gone, then Hoppy spends most of the film dressed in lumberjack clobber, and looks like he may have borrowed one of Buster Keaton's hats? So, he doesn't really look like Hoppy for most of the film! I guess they were trying for something different, but for me, it didn't work.
I'm surprised that this movie got such high user ratings and reviews. It is as though only Hoppy fans vote here and mindlessly give everything a 7 vote.
I thought this was one of the worst Hoppy movies. I enjoy most of them. The story was uninteresting. The supporting cast was mediocre. Victor Jory should have remained as a bad guy; here he looked ridiculous with his silly accent. The singing was corny. Andy Clyde's antics was inane and juvenile. There was some decent camera-work and action.
The final action scenes in the film demonstrate without doubt how poor this movie is. Hoppy gets word that the bad guys are on their way to blow up the dam with dynamite. So Hoppy returns to his camp, and with his sidekick Johnny they ride a log through the sky (the timberline of the title) to reach the dam and the bad guys, who shoot a fusillade of bullets at them, merely slightly wounding Johnny. So after miraculously arriving at the dam in the nick of time and unhurt, Hoppy (who happened to spot the bad guy planting dynamite with a lit fuse at the base of the dam near the water) dives off the dam into the water and swims to the lit dynamite. I couldn't believe he could dive that distance into the water with his hat on and swim to the planted dynamite, with his hat still on! Still immune to the fusillade of bullets, he conveniently throws the dynamite quite a distance to the bad guys blowing them up. The final scene in the movie was particularly embarrassing. As Hoppy and his pals are saying goodbye to all assembled, sidekick California says he forgot his hat, and everyone laughs as though it was the funniest thing they ever heard.
I thought this was one of the worst Hoppy movies. I enjoy most of them. The story was uninteresting. The supporting cast was mediocre. Victor Jory should have remained as a bad guy; here he looked ridiculous with his silly accent. The singing was corny. Andy Clyde's antics was inane and juvenile. There was some decent camera-work and action.
The final action scenes in the film demonstrate without doubt how poor this movie is. Hoppy gets word that the bad guys are on their way to blow up the dam with dynamite. So Hoppy returns to his camp, and with his sidekick Johnny they ride a log through the sky (the timberline of the title) to reach the dam and the bad guys, who shoot a fusillade of bullets at them, merely slightly wounding Johnny. So after miraculously arriving at the dam in the nick of time and unhurt, Hoppy (who happened to spot the bad guy planting dynamite with a lit fuse at the base of the dam near the water) dives off the dam into the water and swims to the lit dynamite. I couldn't believe he could dive that distance into the water with his hat on and swim to the planted dynamite, with his hat still on! Still immune to the fusillade of bullets, he conveniently throws the dynamite quite a distance to the bad guys blowing them up. The final scene in the movie was particularly embarrassing. As Hoppy and his pals are saying goodbye to all assembled, sidekick California says he forgot his hat, and everyone laughs as though it was the funniest thing they ever heard.
I have seen through the satellite so far 38 out of 66 Hopalong Cassidy westerns. This is by far the best one with not only lots of action but Hoppy is not afraid to pitch in with the workers and not wear his customary black outfit. He is seen with a checkered shirt and white cap most of the time. I would recommend this episode to anyone who has not seen a Hoppy movie.
A very familiar theme in many Hopalong Cassidy is an unseen baddie who is paying his evil minions to create 'accidents' and stir up workers. I've seen it done in Cassidy films about railroads, cattle and more....and "Riders of the Timberline" is about the same sort of thing...in lumber country.
When the film starts, workers at Jim Kerrigan's lumber camp are discontented after yet another accident. And, soon, they are stirred up by workers who really are being paid to disrupt things. But when Hoppy arrives, he vows to help his old friend, Kerrigan (J. Farrell McDonald). To deal with this, he does something the Hopalong Cassidy films ALSO did a lot...pretend to be a villain in order to get the bad guy behind all this to hire them...thus exposing himself and his crooked scheme.
If you've never seen other Hopalong Cassidy films, you'll no doubt enjoy this one. If you've seen most of his pictures, like me, you'll feel a strong sense of déjà vu since it's really too familiar...and therefore, very predictable. About the only thing I couldn't have anticipated was seeing Victor Jory playing a French-Canadian lumberjack, his wearing bulky padding to look macho and his NOT being a villain as he ALWAYS was in villain in other Hoppy pictures.
By the way, while Victor Jory never looked like a macho man to me, apparently when he was in the service he was a champion boxer and wrestler! And, he WAS born in the Yukon...that really is lumberjack territory!
When the film starts, workers at Jim Kerrigan's lumber camp are discontented after yet another accident. And, soon, they are stirred up by workers who really are being paid to disrupt things. But when Hoppy arrives, he vows to help his old friend, Kerrigan (J. Farrell McDonald). To deal with this, he does something the Hopalong Cassidy films ALSO did a lot...pretend to be a villain in order to get the bad guy behind all this to hire them...thus exposing himself and his crooked scheme.
If you've never seen other Hopalong Cassidy films, you'll no doubt enjoy this one. If you've seen most of his pictures, like me, you'll feel a strong sense of déjà vu since it's really too familiar...and therefore, very predictable. About the only thing I couldn't have anticipated was seeing Victor Jory playing a French-Canadian lumberjack, his wearing bulky padding to look macho and his NOT being a villain as he ALWAYS was in villain in other Hoppy pictures.
By the way, while Victor Jory never looked like a macho man to me, apparently when he was in the service he was a champion boxer and wrestler! And, he WAS born in the Yukon...that really is lumberjack territory!
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- QuizThe 41st of 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies.
- BlooperWhen Hoppy throws the dynamite away from the dam it explodes at the base of a pile of logs. Hoppy is then rained upon by milled 2x2 lumber.
- ConnessioniEdited into Lumberjack (1944)
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- Riders of the Timberlane
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By what name was Riders of the Timberline (1941) officially released in Canada in English?
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