the trail of the lonesome pine film location

that had been filmed four times in the silent era, the film offers young Fonda (in his fourth film) and Sidney (already a veteran, her screen career would stretch to Tim Burton’s “Mars Attacks!” in 1996) as a hillbilly Romeo and Juliet caught in a generations-old feud between their families.Ī twist on this familiar formula comes with the arrival of an urban mining engineer, MacMurray - another screen newcomer, two decades before “My Three Sons” - whom Sidney becomes smitten with after he saves the life of her little brother (“Spanky” McFarland of “Little Rascals” fame). Howard Greene, who later won three Oscars - on location, with California’s San Bernardino Mountains standing in for Kentucky.īased on a novel by John Fox Jr. Where the first two features were shot under rigorously controlled conditions on soundstages, “Lonesome Pine” was filmed - by documentary filmmaker Robert C. The jury was still out on Technicolor’s improved three-strip process - the independently made “Becky Sharp” and “The Dancing Pirate” were flops - when Paramount released the first major studio feature, and the first shot outdoors, in January 1936.

ONE of the most beautiful movies ever made in classic Technicolor, “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” arrives on DVD today in a gorgeous restoration of this backwoods melodrama starring Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray and Sylvia Sidney.

The trail of the lonesome pine film location