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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)

Drama | 102 minutes
3,30 23 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda

IMDb score: 6,8 (1.525)

Releasedate: 13 March 1936

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine plot

"The Technicolor spectacle that blazes the trail to an all-time high in adventure!"

Outsider Jack Hale (Fred MacMurray) arrives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia to clear the path for the coming railroad. Mountain girl June (Sylvia Sidney) falls in love with Jack, drawing the ire of her boyfriend Dave Tolliver (Henry Fonda). Jack also finds himself in the middle of a feud between the Tollivers and another mountain clan.

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When it's twilight on the trail / and my voice is still

Please plant this heart of mine / underneath that Lonesome Pine / on the Hill

At least the third version of the story, and perhaps all three versions are forgotten. In any case, this version suffers from a very uninteresting story, like a precursor to the Western genre before anyone realized it needed any kind of narrative.

Technically, perhaps, it's interesting because it's one of the oldest surviving color films. And yes, in the version I saw, the colors look almost right, and the lack of perfection really doesn't matter. But neither do the remaining colors.

Perhaps equally interesting is a very early role for Henry Fonda—barely recognizable here with his milky mouth and full set of teeth compared to the weathered, toothless face he would later develop. Even for him, I was hardly impressed by his performance.

Hathaway had already made quite a few films, so why did he come up with this rather bland and insipid thing? Was it because it was a remake of two earlier versions, and he felt indebted to them? Anyone who's seen those earlier films can tell me. I don't think I'll bother; this one was already hard enough for me.

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