Joe Maross stands out in a small role, and if you look fast, you'll see stuntman Hal Needham, who went on to direct many of Burt The tune "All His Children" (Henry Mancini, Marilyn and Alan Bergman sung by Charlie Pride) won a nomination from the movie academy. The picture barely returned what it cost to make, which was a shame since it was a good movie with excellent work on the Kesey's 600-plus-page novel would have made a fine six-hour mini-series, and it's a tribute to scenarist Gay that he managed to condense that much material into under two hours. There on the tug sits Fonda's severed hand, with all the fingers bent down save the middle one, in the universal symbol of "I ain't down yet." It's a tawdry joke to end what was, until then, a good enough movie in the 1930s Warner Bros. Newman and Sarrazin double-handedly take the logs down the twisting river pulling them withĪ tug. He takes to the bottle, then gets up, determined to be what his father would have wanted him to be. Newman goes home and learns that Remick has departed. Old man, whose credo is "never give an inch," dies. Newman is in the hospital with Fonda as the Newman makes a Herculean effort to save his brother, but Jaeckel drowns (in the best scene in the picture and surely the reason Jaeckel received an Oscar nomination). Fonda's arm is cut off, and Jaeckel is pinned under logs as the tide comes in. As the family begins to cut the logs to the proper length for shipping by water an accident When one of their trucks is destroyed, there seems to be only one way to get their logs to the mill they must float them downstream. Intimates that Newman and Fonda's second wife had a fling years before. Fonda's dog is shot by a sniper, and the annual touch football game between the lumber workers almost erupts into murder as a fight breaks out when one of the townspeople Sarrazin is almost killed when an unseen hand cuts a cable and he narrowly avoids a log rolling downhill. The local people have gone from resentment of the Fonda family to outright violence in their anger about the family's refusal toĪdhere to the strike. Sarrazin become attracted to each other, and he sees in her a copy of his late mother in that she is also thinking that there must be a better way to spend one's life. Sarrazin shows his mettle and is soon accepted by the others as he demonstrates what must be genetic ability with lumber. Sarrazin comes back to the family home, not so much out of love for his crusty father as because he doesn't have a home anywhere else. Later Sarrazin became involved with drugs while attending college, and his Sarrazin's mother left Oregon a decade before when she could not take the harsh life. He's another Fonda son by a second marriage. Fonda has a broken arm and legįrom an accident, but that doesn't affect his iconoclastic determination. The other loggers in the town go on strike against the bosses, but Fonda, who has a contract, decides to honor it, thereby incurring the enmity of his neighbors. Newman's wife is Remick and Jaeckel's wife is Lawson. Shot), and Fonda rules the roost with a firm hand. They own their own logging company in Oregon (where the film was Fonda, playing an old man for the first time at the age of 65, is the stern but benevolent father of Newman and Jaeckel. When he came back, there were problems between Newman and Colla, and Newman ended up taking over. The original director assigned to the film was Richard Colla, but when Newman broke his ankle while riding a motorcycle in June, 1970, the production had to shut down while theīones healed. Paul Newman's second directing job is quite a bit different from the intimacy of his first, RACHEL, RACHEL.
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