i just can not sell this movie folk and i think it be dreadful . i be someone who be normally content with both director { joseph kane } and star { sterling hayden } but here they be mire in weak plotting and bad acting and even bad accent . it also purport to be something of a mystery and which be daft since there isn not one . flimsy fight come and go and as do cheese lade song and while the dialogue be as stilted { read from auto cue it look like } a can be . republic picture do have many a fine b movie in the locker and but this isn not worthy of z movie status . the plot see hayden a tim chipman and who return home to find his father and owner of the family log company and have be murder . with money owe and a shifty rival in the offering and can tim solve the mystery and fight off the baddie and once again move log . adapt from a novel write by dan cushman and of which i haven not read and i honestly do not know if the source material be any good to begin with . but this just doesn not work and either a an interesting story or a a competently execute one . some decent train sequence catch the eye and and the location work at glacier national park be please and if not help by the less than standard trucolor print . but really it not even a time filler of a picture . negative .