Riders of the Timberline
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Cast & Crew
Lesley Selander
William Boyd
Andy Clyde
Brad King
Victor Jory
Eleanor Stewart
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Synopsis
Bar-20 foreman Buck Peters sends his trusted ranch hands, Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson, to deliver $15,000 to Jim Kerrigan, a friend who is having difficulty meeting his lumber contract with the Ajax Lumber Company because of recurring sabotage. Hoppy and Johnny agree to stay and help Jim and all are relieved when Jim's daughter Elaine returns home with a group of loyal lumberjacks known as "The Fighting Forty." Local lumberjacks, who refuse to work Kerrigan's camp because of numerous accidents, try to stop the Forty from working, but the Forty beat them back. After Hoppy kills one saboteur who sneaks into camp in the night, he follows the compatriots to Ajax operative Ed Petrie's office and learns of Petrie's involvement. Hoppy and Jim later decide to try and smoke out the head man behind the sabotage by staging a falling out between Jim and Hoppy during which Jim throws Hoppy and Johnny out of his camp because they supposedly cheat at cards. Petrie is now sympathetic to them and along with Preston Yates, who is in collusion with Ajax and is trying to get Jim's land, they lure Petrie and his men into attempting another sabotage. Petrie's men are captured, but Jim is severely injured during the raid, and Baptiste Deschamp, his foreman, blames Hoppy and Johnny for the sabotage. Jim revives long enough to reveal the truth of the situation, and Hoppy and the lumbermen unite forces to prevent Petrie from blowing up the dam. The lumber contract is fulfilled, the Fighting Forty leave the camp and Hoppy, Johnny and Hoppy's friend California return to the Bar-20.
Director
Lesley Selander
Cast
William Boyd
Andy Clyde
Brad King
Victor Jory
Eleanor Stewart
J. Farrell Macdonald
Anna Q. Nilsson
Tom Tyler
Edward Keane
Hal Taliaferro
Mickey Eissa
Hank Bell
The Guardsmen Quartet
Crew
Chas. Althouse
Ralph Berger
J. Benton Cheney
Glenn Cook
Fred Feitshans Jr.
Grace Hamilton
Russell Harlan
Emile Kuri
John Leipold
Metzetti Troupe
Earl Moser
Lewis J. Rachmil
Sherman A. Rose
Harry Sherman
Jack Stern
Irvin Talbot
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The working title of this film was Timber Wolves. According to a November 1940 news item, production on this film was delayed due to the fact that lumber mills were unavailable as location sites because they were occupied with "defense orders." For additional information on the "Hopalong Cassidy" series, please consult the Series Index and see entry for Hop-Along Cassidy in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.1990.
