God's Country (1946 film)

God's Country
Directed byRobert Emmett Tansey
Written byFrances Kavanaugh
Based onnovel by James Oliver Curwood
Produced byWilliam B. David
StarringRobert Lowery
Helen Gilbert
Buster Keaton
CinematographyMarcel Le Picard
Carl Wester
Edited byMartin G. Cohn
George McGuire
Music byJames Mayfield
Production
company
Action Pictures
Distributed byScreen Guild Productions
Release date
  • March 15, 1946 (1946-03-15)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

God's Country is a 1946 comedy Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Robert Lowery, Helen Gilbert and Buster Keaton. It is a low-budget color B Western set in the contemporary American West.[1]

Plot

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Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce (Lowery), kills a man in self-defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley (Gilbert), the niece of "Sandy" McTavish (Farnum) who runs the trading post.

Lee learns why this is good trapping country as the timber barons across the lake are ruthlessly cutting the trees and driving the animals across the river. The trappers appeal to him to take a petition to the Governor which would prohibit the timber people from coming to their side of the lake. At first, because he is a wanted man, he refuses, but does so later for the sake of the people, even though he knows it will lead to his arrest.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Gaunt, Staring Babes In Famine Films Put An Onus on Gluttony". The Washington Post. June 1, 1946. p. 10. ProQuest 151841588.
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