The Tougher They Come
The Tougher They Come
| 16 November 1950 (USA)
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Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.

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Dynamixor

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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filippaberry84

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Orla Zuniga

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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Matylda Swan

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

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boblipton

This is the first of two movies that Preston Foster and Wayne Morris starred in for Columbia. In both they played rough-and-tough buddies, like Spencer Tracy & Clark Gable for MGM or Jimmy Cagney & Pat O'Brien for Warners a decade and a half earlier. They've even got Frank McHugh, who often played Cagney's stooge, as Foster's chief cook and bottle washer.In this one, Foster and Morris are a couple of Big Timber men. Foster owns a logging site, but there's a dame, of course. Foster is married to Kay Buckley, a blonde who likes her comforts and wants Foster to sell out to the big combine.There's the usual combination of casual rowdy behavior that typifies this sort of movie and there's nothing done that isn't competent. On the other hand, there isn't much that's particularly noteworthy. The result is a decent time-killer.

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GUENOT PHILIPPE

I like timber, forest, lumberjack movies. I don't know why. Robert Enrico's LES GRANDES GUEULES, Joseph Kane's TIMBERJACK and SPOILERS OF THE FOREST, Andrew Mac Laglen's FRICKLES, and many many more. Maybe because they are all been shot mostly on locations, and not entirely in studios. This one brings not much to the genre. It's a man's story. The sequence where Wayne Morris and Preston Foster get drunk together, as real pals, and wake up afterwards before fight against each other in the pure John Ford style, this scene is very amusing, I would say exquisite. Some good action sequences, the forest fire is the climax of this pretty well done adventure flick. Ray Nazarro made mostly westerns, desert movies, and not forest ones...

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