This one is available on an excellent Alpha DVD under its 1941 re-issue title, "Lucky Corrigan". By the humble standards of independent productions, it's actually quite surprisingly spectacular. A whole lot of money is thrown at the camera (or maybe director Lewis D. Collins was fortuitously on the spot when a genuine forest fire broke out while the company was on location in Canada's Vancouver Island in British Columbia). The players led by cocky but likable William Gargan (pronounced "Garrigan"), the charismatic J.P. McGowan and the lovely Molly Lamont, all turn in strong performances. Credit is also due to Philip Conway for his fast-paced and well characterized screenplay and William Beckway for his superb location photography. (Harry Forbes did the well-matched studio scenes).
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Well, There's A Woman, Anyway
boblipton8 November 2019
William Gargan wanders through the woods, gets a job as a logger, makes erratic stabs at romancing Molly Lamont and intermittently tries to thwart the bad guys in competition with his boss. It's a fairly standard logging picture, but it's directed at a good clip by Lewis Collins, even if the editing cuts some muscle along with the fat from the story. It's most interesting for its views of logging. Parts of it were shot on Vancouver Island, and there's some spectacular shots of men topping trees, and logs splashing into water.
It's one of a dozen or so quota quickies from Kenneth Bishop, shot in the Vancouver area for distribution in Great Britain. Columbia Pictures wanted to distribute in Great Britain, but needed cheap product shot in the Empire, using British personnel.... and that included Australians, South Africans and Canadians. Harry Cohn's solution was to bankroll Bishop under a separate corporate name, ship up some cheap stars for name recognition, and distribute the product pretty much anywhere English was spoken. Usually the results were pretty sluggish. This one is ok.
It's one of a dozen or so quota quickies from Kenneth Bishop, shot in the Vancouver area for distribution in Great Britain. Columbia Pictures wanted to distribute in Great Britain, but needed cheap product shot in the Empire, using British personnel.... and that included Australians, South Africans and Canadians. Harry Cohn's solution was to bankroll Bishop under a separate corporate name, ship up some cheap stars for name recognition, and distribute the product pretty much anywhere English was spoken. Usually the results were pretty sluggish. This one is ok.
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