The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

John Fox Jr. (novel)
Grover Jones (screenplay)

Release Date:

13 March 1936 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Beautiful Woman | Train | Feud | Based On Novel

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Sylvia Sidney	...	June Tolliver
Fred MacMurray	...	Jack Hale
Henry Fonda	...	Dave Tolliver
Fred Stone	...	Judd Tolliver
Nigel Bruce	...	Thurber
Beulah Bondi	...	Melissa
Robert Barrat	...	Buck Falin
George 'Spanky' McFarland	...	Buddie Tolliver
Fuzzy Knight	...	Tater
Otto Fries	...	Corsey
Samuel S. Hinds	...	Sheriff
Alan Baxter	...	Clay Tolliver
Margaret Armstrong	...	Tolliver family member
Ricca Allen	...	Tolliver family member
Fern Emmett	...	Lena Tolliver

Also Known As:

Auf einsamen Pfaden (Austria) [de]
Den uskrevne lov (Denmark) [da]
El camino del pino solitario (Spain) [es]
Il sentiero del pino solitario (Italy) [it]
Kampf in den Bergen (Germany) [de]
La fille du bois maudit (France) [fr]
Rätsel um eine Frau (Austria) [de]
The trail of the lonesome pine: El camino del pino solitario (Spain) [es]

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Filming Locations:

Big Bear Lake, California, USA

Company:

Walter Wanger Productions

Trivia:

Paramount's first Technicolor feature and the first feature to be shot in Three-Strip Technicolor outside of a studio environment (on location).

Goofs:

Continuity: The mud on June Tolliver changes thickness and shape between shots. It also changes from wet to dry and then back to wet.

Movie Connections:

Remake of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)

Soundtrack:

A Melody from the Sky

Great early color movie

I saw this movie when I was 15 years old and never forgot it; I now have a copy of it and watch it often and enjoy it as much as when it first came out in 1936.