PARK AVENUE LOGGER (1937) George O'Brien & Beatrice Roberts | Action, Drama, Romance | B&W

Avenue Logger is a 1937 American lumberjack Western film directed by David Howard. The film is also known as Millionaire Playboy in the United Kingdom and Tall Timber (American reissue title).
SYNOPSIS
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon uncovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.

Mike Curran believes his son Grant is an effete aesthete and decides to toughen him up by sending him under a false name to work at one of Mike's logging camps. Unknown to the elder Curren, his son spends his evenings as a masked wrestler; Grant believes his family would be embarrassed if they knew the truth.

Also unknown to Mike Curran is the fact that his friend and logging camp boss Ben Morton and his stooge Paul Sangar are embezzling money from the Curren owned camp and are trying to force Peggy O'Shea's rival logging camp out of business by deadly acts of sabotage.

The pair send Grant to work at Peggy's camp with a group of handpicked idlers. The hard and dangerous tasks that Paul orders him to do backfire when Grant sets a faster pace that the workmen emulate. Grant moves in on Peggy O'Shea who Paul believes is his girl. When Peggy makes it clear to Paul that she prefers Grant to him, Paul responds by hiring three toughs to threaten Grant to make him leave. After Grant laughs in their face and won't be provoked, Peggy believes him a coward. The trio wait outside a dance hall to give Grant a beating, but they discover the hard way that Grant is a man not to be trifled with.

CAST & CREW
George O'Brien as Grant Curran
Beatrice Roberts as Peggy O'Shea
Willard Robertson as Ben Morton
Ward Bond as Paul Sangar
Bert Hanlon as Nick
Gertrude Short as Margy MacLean
Lloyd Ingraham as Mike Curran
George Rosener as Matt O'Shea
Robert Emmett O'Connor as Police Sergeant
Brother Jonathan as Wrestler

Directed by David Howard
Written by Daniel Jarrett (screenplay and adaptation) and Ewing Scott (screenplay and adaptation), Bruce Hutchison (story "Park Avenue Logger")
Produced by George A. Hirliman
Cinematography Frank B. Good
Edited by Robert O. Crandall
Production company George A. Hirliman Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date February 26, 1937
Running time 67 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
It is based on the short story of the same name by Bruce Hutchison that appeared in the 30 November 1935 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.