The latest round of violence causes June not to want to return home, so Hale sends her to Louisville to live with his sister.Ī bridge is destroyed by the Falins, causing the accidental death of Buddie. Upset over the budding romance, Dave sets out after Hale with a rifle but is ambushed by the Falins.

But others from both families do not give this outsider their trust.

Her younger brother Buddie is also impressed with Hale, who begins to educate him and take the boy under his wing. After an engineer, Jack Hale, arrives with coal and railroad interests, he saves the life of Dave Tolliver, whose injury has developed gangrene.ĭave expects to marry a cousin, June, but she takes an immediate shine to the newcomer. As with the novel, the film makes extensive use of Appalachian English in the dialogue.ĭeep in the region of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, a feud between the Kentucky clans of the Tollivers and the Falins has been ongoing for as long as anyone can recall. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the fourth feature film adaptation of John Fox Jr.'s 1908 novel, including 19 silent versions. Much of it was shot at Big Bear Lake in southern California. It was the second full-length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and the first in color to be shot outdoors, with the approval of the Technicolor Corporation. The picture was directed by Henry Hathaway starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American adventure romance western film based on the novel of the same name.

The trail of the lonesome pine 1916