The 1937 American Technicolor lumberjack drama film God's Country and
the Woman was directed by William Keighley and written by Norman Reilly
Raine. Starring in the movie are George Brent, Joe King, Beverly
Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, and Alan Hale, Sr. Warner Bros.
released the movie on January 16, 1937, based on James Oliver Curwood's
God's Country and the Woman, published in 1915. The first full-color,
full-length movie by Warner Brothers. filmed on location in Washington
state, close to Mount St. Helens. The Russett Company and Barton Lumber
Company are rival lumber businesses that compete for lumber in the
Northwest. In the Northwest's forest, a lumberjack has his sights set on
a woman. Regarding the Technicolor, Greene points out that there are
some "quite stunning views of trees carving enormous arcs against the
sky as they fall," but he also observes that the "rapid cutting and
quick dissolves corroborate the assumption that color will push the film
back technically twelve years." In The Sunday Times, Sydney Carroll
reviewed the movie critically and mainly objected to the melancholy
Technicolor technologies' brutal handling of the arboreal flora. Greene
also sarcastically observed the reactions of more seasoned critics and
highlighted paragraphs from Sydney Carroll's review of the movie.
