A Feud Between Rival Lumber Camps

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 11

A Feud Between Rival Lumber Camps

•GOD S COUNTRY AND THE

WOMAN"

(Meteor: Screening Next Tuesday.)

With virgin forests of t Northwest as its background and a feud between rival lumber companies as its theme, “Gcd*s Country and the Woman. 1 * Warn • Bros.’ picturisation in natural colours cf the James Curwcod novel of the same name, has George Brent and Beverly Roberts in the stellar roles.

Brent is at his vigorous and ingratiating best as St-ve Bussett a rich idler who achieves power in the big woods through conflict with his ruthlers brother and the influence of a courageous girl of the forest, Joe Barton, a role portrayed by Beverly Roberts.

Brent and Miss Roberts are supported by Barton Mac Lane, Robert Barrat, Alan Hale, El Brendel, Billy Bevan, Joseph King and many other screen favourites. Several real lumberjacks take part in the picturesque sequences. The thrilling drami and romance of the film is said to be tempered by robust comedy in the mood of the story. “God's Country and the Woman," which was screened almost wholly in the big woods district, is said to be the last word in natural colour photography.

The story revolves about the fact that Brent has a brother, Robert Barrat, who heads a lumber company and whose hatred is aimed against Beverly Roberts, who owns a rival company. He is engineering a crooked deal which will make the girl pay unreasonable royalties for transporting supplies across his territory—when the younger brother arrives on the scene—and plays hob with his plans. Brent upsets the •leal, denounces hi* brother, and starts back to the city. Barrat has him shanghaied and brought back to the woods with the idea of forcing him to become a lumberman. Then begins the terrific conflict between the brothers —and the strange romance with the beautiful girl

of the timberlands. "God’s Country and the Woman" presents many spectacular scenes among which is the flight of a runaway log train plunging to a gorge and forming a gigantic log jam—and the dynamiting of the jam to set free timber that must be at tidewater by a certain date.