I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Songs: Hoagy Carmichael composed both lyrics and music for the novelty number, "My Dog", which he also sings. The others, sung by Vera Ralston, are "The Tambourine Waltz" and "What Ev'ry Young Girl Should Know", with words by Paul Francis Webster, and "He's Dead But He Won't Lie Down", the words of which were written by Johnny Mercer. Title song "Timberjack", sung by The Lancers, was written by Ned Washington and Victor Young.Unfolding against the lavish natural wonderland of Western Montana, the film was made on location both there and in Glacier National Park.Copyright 1955 by Republic Pictures Corp. New York opening at Loew's State: 9 March 1955. U.S. release: 28 February 1955. U.K. release: March 1955. Australian release through 20th Century-Fox: 24 February 1956. Sydney opening at the Palladium: 24 February 1956 (ran one week). 8,326 feet. 92 minutes.SYNOPSIS: Tim Chipman (Sterling Hayden) returns to his native Talka River section of Montana when he learns his father has met with a serious accident. Tim's boyhood sweetheart, Lynne Tilton (Vera Ralston), is now the owner and singing star of the Vermilion Belle, a deluxe cabaret. The place is highly popular with timberjacks employed by the Talka River Logging Company, a powerful outfit headed by ruthless Croft Brunner (David Brian). Brunner explains that the road is closed to the Chipman interests until the $11,000 assessment on the Chipman stock in the railroad is paid. Tim accuses Brunner of having killed Chipman. With Steve Riika (Chill Wills) and Lynne's father, "Swiftie" Tilton (Adolphe Menjou), Tim tries to get the season's quota of timber to market. Brunner offers to buy a fine quarter-million stand of fir, and Tim refuses to sell. Brunner imports city goons to wreck Tim's timber-floating preparations. (At this stage, however, the picture runs out of money and proceeds to a swifter and much more economical climax than that promised).COMMENT: Catchy title tune, picturesquely rugged scenery, a Shay logging locomotive with flatcars, a couple of vigorously staged action spots, a great performance by Howard Petrie - that just about sums up the entertainment virtues of Timberjack. But on the other side of the coin: dreary songs and overly contrived dance numbers, garish sets, long dialogue stretches with boring people exercising their gums at considerable length - and Vera Ralston filling the wide screen just a little too comfortably.OTHER VIEWS: Vera Ralston registers fine as Vera Ralston in this typical Republic outdoors melodrama. The usual brawls, shoot-outs and occasional spurts of action, plus genuine location scenery that looks mighty picturesque in Trucolor, makes Timberjack a natural for the bush. For city suburban cinemas, however, Timberjack is best booked as the lower half of a midweek double. - Exhibitors' Booking Guide.

Lesser Hoagy Carmichael is better than the top drawer effort of a lot of composers. And Hoagy and the songs he does with and without Vera Hruba Ralston is the best thing about Timberjack. Which as you probably gathered is a story about logging.Sterling Hayden comes home after the murder of his father and finds that dad's rival David Brian is ruling the roost there and eliminating competition. Originally Hayden was going to sell, but he and his father's foreman Chill Wills decide to stay and fight.Timber isn't all that Hayden and Brian are scrapping about, they've also got saloon entertainer Vera on their minds and on their libidos. Vera is as wooden as ever, but she's something to look at in a low cut dress.But the real treat is Hoagy Carmichael, playing the piano and accompanying Ralston and himself. Several songs were written for this film and Carmichael is always a treat. There is also an adroit performance by Adolphe Menjou as Ralston's father, an attorney with a drinking problem. He's never bad in anything he does even if the film isn't top drawer.Timberjack also features some good location cinematography, especially in the forest scenes and the logging scenes. Fans of Sterling Hayden and Hoagy Carmichael should like this, most especially the latter.

Well,she certainly worked hard and that's a fact.Through most of the movie she appears to be looking desperately at the other actors as if for their approval,like a puppy having mastered a new trick.She gyrates around the saloon,sings in a sub - sub Dietrich fashion a song or two that brings new meaning to the word "banal" before killing the bad guy with a backshot a sniper would have been proud of. In a logging camp full of exotic Europeans with names like Ole and a positive cornucopia of lousy accents Sterling Hayden searches for the truth about his father's death.Nearly as wooden as the logs he wants to send downriver,Mr Hayden is tall and fair and freckled.Unlike Miss Ralston he doesn't seem to care whether anybody likes him or not. Adolph Menjou is rather sweet as Miss Ralston's father who is killed by the bad guy with a single punch to the chin.Perhaps not surprisingly his hat comes off and is later found by Miss Ralston in the bad guy's office.Thus exciting her suspicions.Steady now.... There's plenty of treetop action - enough to set the Health and Safety boys running for the phone - and a lot of manly fistfights. Hoagy Carmichael does his usual piano - playing saloon bar philosopher part and sings a love song to a dog.Go figure. Not so much a negative experience,more a "Oh,is that it?" kind of movie. Just when you think it can't go on for much longer - it doesn't.For connoisseurs of the slightly camp only.

Story involves a timberjack (Hayden) out to discover the murderer of his father. Unfortunately, the story gives us only one suspect in Hayden's rival in the local lumber trade, so there's not much mystery here. A few songs by Carmichael and a great rousing performance by Ralston lift the story slightly above the obvious. Nice locations, good action scenes, and Hayden is good as usual but seems unmotivated by this limited vehicle. Fairly solid, but few thrills beyond the music and good cast -- they deserved a little more story.