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Valley of the Giants (1938)

Valley of the Giants poster
Directed by
William Keighley
Genre
adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 19m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man fights to protect a California redwood forest from a greedy logging company. He faces off against corrupt businessmen and uses his wits to save the trees.

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What happens

Valley of the Giants is a 1938 American Technicolor adventure film/lumberjack Western directed by William Keighley, written by Seton I. Miller and Michael Fessier, and starring Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale Sr., Donald Crisp, and Charles Bickford. It is based on the novel The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne, which had previously been filmed as a silent in 1927. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 17, 1938. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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