The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
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1936 theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
| Produced by | Walter Wanger |
| Written by |
Grover Jones Horace McCoy |
| Screenplay by | Harvey F. Thew |
| Based on |
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr. |
| Starring |
Fred MacMurray Sylvia Sidney Henry Fonda |
| Cinematography |
Robert C. Bruce W. Howard Greene |
| Edited by | Robert Bischoff |
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Production
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Walter Wanger Productions
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $621,864 |
| Box office | $1.7 million |
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full-length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and the first in color to be shot outdoors, with the approval of the Technicolor Corporation. Much of it was shot at Big Bear Lake in southern California.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the fifth feature film adaptation of John Fox, Jr.'s 1908 novel, including 1916 and 1923 silent versions.
A feud between Kentucky clans the Tollivers and Falins has been ongoing for as long as anyone can recall. After an engineer, Jack Hale, arrives with coal and railroad interests, he saves the life of Dave Tolliver, whose injury has developed gangrene.
Dave expects to marry a cousin, June, but she takes an immediate shine to the newcomer. Her younger brother Buddie is also impressed with Hale, who begins to educate him and take the boy under his wing. But others from both families do not give this outsider their trust.
Upset over the budding romance, Dave sets out after Hale with a rifle but is ambushed by the Falins. The latest round of violence causes June not to want to return home, so Hale sends her to Louisville to live with his sister.
A bridge is destroyed by the Falins, causing the accidental death of Buddie. A funeral is held and June returns, newly sophisticated from being in the big city. Family patriarch Buck Falin extends his apologies about her brother. Dave, however, is shot in the back by Wade Falin.
The families agree that the feud has gone too far. Hale is befriended by all, and will happily marry June.
With principal on-location photography beginning in mid-October 1935 in Chatsworth, at Big Bear Lake (in the San Bernardino Mountains), and at the Santa Susana Pass in California, recreating the rural and mountain locale of the novel. The film was the first feature-length film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor on location.
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