Timberjack (film)

Timberjack is a 1955 American Trucolor lumberjack Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael and Chill Wills.

Tim Chipman is an honest lumberman who returns home to find his father murdered.

Chipman gets his own back by setting the family timber company against ruthless competitor Croft Brunner.

Brunner moves the body out of town during the night and dumps it near a river where the men will be logging the next day.

[2] Sterling Hayden and Elisha Cook Jr. would star in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing a year later.