CAST (in United Artists Press Sheet order): William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Andy Clyde (California Carlson), Jimmy Rogers (himself), Herbert Rawlinson (Buck Peters), Ellen Hall (Julie Peters), Ethel Wales (Abbey), Douglass Dumbrille (Keefer), Francis McDonald (Fenwick), John Whitney (Jordan), Hal Taliaferro (Taggart), Henry Wills (Slade), Charles Morton (Big Joe), Frances Morris (Mrs Williams), Jack Rockwell (sheriff), Bob Burns (justice). UNLISTED PLAYERS: Hank Worden, Pierce Lyden (lumberjacks), Earle Hodgins (parson), Bill Nestell (tough guy), and "Topper".
Director: LESLEY SELANDER. Screenplay: Norman Houston, Barry Shipton. Based on characters created by Clarence E. Mulford. Photography: Russell Harlan. Supervising film editor: Carroll Lewis. Film editor: Fred W. Berger. Music director: Irvin Talbot. Songs by Forrest Johnson and Ozzie Waters. Art director: Ralph Berger. Set decorator: Emile Kuri. Sound recording: Jack Noyes, William H. Lynch. Associate producer: Lewis J. Rachmil. Producer: Harry Sherman. A Harry A. Sherman Production.
Copyright 24 March 1944 by United Artists Productions, Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 28 April 1944. Australian release: Not recorded. 5,811 feet. 64 minutes.
SYNOPSIS (from UA's press sheet): "Hoppy makes a gallant effort to help Julie, daughter of his boss, the owner of the famous Bar-20 Ranch, who has eloped against her father's wishes. He is too late to stop the wedding, and arrives just in time to see Julie's husband murdered Julie is stubborn and refuses Hoppy's aid But Hoppy steadfastly sticks around."
NOTES: Number 53 (according to Harry Sherman) of the 66-picture Hopalong Cassidy series.
Supposedly, the movie debut of Ellen Hall. Actually she appeared in six films previous to this. Her real debut was in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930). Or maybe that was a different Ellen Hall?
COMMENT: According to UA publicity, Hopalong Cassidy is a "popular amateur sleuth". That's certainly news to me. I always thought he was a real cowboy knight who rode to the rescue of fair damsels (in this case, Ellen Hall).
Still, whatever Hoppy may be, "Lumberjack" rates as a passable enough entry in the series, featuring striking cinematography in the High Sierras by ace cameraman Russell Harlan.
Unfortunately, a reasonably suspenseful screenplay and competent acting are undermined by laboriously unfunny, time-wasting comic relief. One guess as to who figures as the chief culprit in this department. You guessed right: Mr. Clyde!
Director: LESLEY SELANDER. Screenplay: Norman Houston, Barry Shipton. Based on characters created by Clarence E. Mulford. Photography: Russell Harlan. Supervising film editor: Carroll Lewis. Film editor: Fred W. Berger. Music director: Irvin Talbot. Songs by Forrest Johnson and Ozzie Waters. Art director: Ralph Berger. Set decorator: Emile Kuri. Sound recording: Jack Noyes, William H. Lynch. Associate producer: Lewis J. Rachmil. Producer: Harry Sherman. A Harry A. Sherman Production.
Copyright 24 March 1944 by United Artists Productions, Inc. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 28 April 1944. Australian release: Not recorded. 5,811 feet. 64 minutes.
SYNOPSIS (from UA's press sheet): "Hoppy makes a gallant effort to help Julie, daughter of his boss, the owner of the famous Bar-20 Ranch, who has eloped against her father's wishes. He is too late to stop the wedding, and arrives just in time to see Julie's husband murdered Julie is stubborn and refuses Hoppy's aid But Hoppy steadfastly sticks around."
NOTES: Number 53 (according to Harry Sherman) of the 66-picture Hopalong Cassidy series.
Supposedly, the movie debut of Ellen Hall. Actually she appeared in six films previous to this. Her real debut was in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930). Or maybe that was a different Ellen Hall?
COMMENT: According to UA publicity, Hopalong Cassidy is a "popular amateur sleuth". That's certainly news to me. I always thought he was a real cowboy knight who rode to the rescue of fair damsels (in this case, Ellen Hall).
Still, whatever Hoppy may be, "Lumberjack" rates as a passable enough entry in the series, featuring striking cinematography in the High Sierras by ace cameraman Russell Harlan.
Unfortunately, a reasonably suspenseful screenplay and competent acting are undermined by laboriously unfunny, time-wasting comic relief. One guess as to who figures as the chief culprit in this department. You guessed right: Mr. Clyde!