The Big Trees

The Big Trees is a 1952 film about a Quaker colony that tries to save giant sequoias from a timber baron. Directed by Felix E. Feist. Written by John Twist and James R. Webb. Mammoth Redwood Wilderness - Treasure Piled to the Sky! Jim Fallon Stop thinking so hard, Frenchy. You're liable to get yourself a bad headache. [to Frenchy] I just want you to know I can see through that swamp you call a brain! [measuring around a Redwood] 28 and half feet! This is just a baby! Daisy Fisher [to Frenchy] You stye on the eye of a flea on a thigh of a nit on the neck of a gnat! It's lucky for you that I only learned how to write, not read. [to Jim about Alicia] Lucky for you my father never owned a shotgun - what about hers? Walter 'Yukon' Burns You're gettin' in a rut, Jim. You'd better look out, and when a rut becomes deep enough, it becomes a grave... and you gotta couple partners likely to put you in it. Other Judge Crenshaw: [Watching the fire destroy the claims building] This is the most satisfying act of God I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing. Elder Bixby: [to Jim] The giant sequoias are more than trees, friend. They are the everlasting sign of our Creator's work... 4000 years old... as old as the Book and the Faith. Dialogue Jim Fallon: [Noticing the group of Quaker women with their distinctive attire] What are they all dressed up for? Frenchy LeCroix: There's a hallelujah colony around here... soul savers... rigid and religious. Jim Fallon: [Referring to Alicia] The dark-haired one can save my soul anytime.Walter 'Yukon' Burns: [Referring to the giant sequoias] Biggest, boldest things in the whole world! Make you feel kinda small?Jim Fallon: Nope... big! I'm the one that's gonna knock 'em down!Elder Bixby: Violence is not our creed.Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Yeah, I know. And I believe in turning the other cheek... but you just run out of cheeks. It's time to start growing some religious muscle.Gray: [to Jim] None of these religious colonists ever bother to accumulate much cash.Alicia Chadwick: There's no need to.Walter 'Yukon' Burns: You see, Jim, these are wonderful folks. They'll give yuh everything they got. If they haven't got anything to give you, they'll say a prayer for you.Alicia Chadwick: Hello! Right on time!Jim Fallon: Sister Chadwick! Thou hastn't been out of my thoughts even a minute.Alicia Chadwick: [to both Jim and Yukon] I hope you're both hungry.Jim Fallon: I look forward to thy home-cooking.Alicia Chadwick: Then it will please thee to know thou shalt help with the washing of the dishes - to make thee feel that our home is thine.Jim Fallon: [Referring to Alicia] What a gal!Walter 'Yukon' Burns: You chigger-pickin' Don Juan! You just try pitchin' hay with her, and I'll shoot that lump you call a head right from under your cap!Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Widow Chadwick and these folks don't want these trees touched at any price.Jim Fallon: She's a widow huh?Walter 'Yukon' Burns: What's the difference?Jim Fallon: When you grow up, I'll explain it to you.Alicia Chadwick: [Speaking about Jim] Men have been known to change.Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Oh, lady, even I have been given up by women reformers! The biggest mistake a woman can make is to pick the wrong man and try to make him right. Why don't you go off somewhere and have a good cry and forget him?Judge Crenshaw: Mr. Burns, I've heard you were an honest man and good with a gun. But I also heard you confessed to weakness for liquor, cards and women.Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Not women, your Honor. They ain't for the weak.Daisy Fisher: What is this, a hotel or a nursery?Alicia Chadwick: A baby was just born here, thanks to Jim.Daisy Fisher: Congratulations...Jim Fallon: What do you mean "thanks to Jim"?Daisy Fisher': I'd better get out of here. It might be catching. Cast Kirk Douglas - Jim Fallon Eve Miller - Sister Alicia Chadwick Patrice Wymore - Daisy Fisher Edgar Buchanan - Walter "Yukon" Burns John Archer - "Frenchy" LeCroix Alan Hale, Jr. - "Tiny" Roy Roberts - Judge Crenshaw Charles Meredith - Elder Bixby Harry Cording - Cleve Gregg Ellen Corby - Sister Blackburn Duke Watson - Mr. Murdoch Lane Chandler - Brother Dorn Elizabeth Slifer - Sister Wallace Lilian Bond - Daisy's girl Michael McHale - Mr. Keller William Challee - Brother Williams External links 0044420 Category:1952 American films Category:Films set in California Category:1952 English-language films Category:Films set in forests Category:American historical films Category:American drama films