Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sequoia (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) concerns an abnormal affinity between a deer and a puma who meet in Sequoia National Park, form an allegiance which causes them to behave like the lion and the lamb in the Biblical text. Captured in infancy by a kind-hearted tourist girl (Jean Parker), Gato, the puma, and Malibu, the deer, soon learn to lap from the same dish. They are fast friends by the time Gato's habit of raiding the neighbor's chicken coop makes it necessary for their mistress to turn both loose in the forest...
...their partnership still continues. The first time Gato sees Malibu he prepares to kill him, then recognizes his old crony and shares a drink with him. Both remain attached to Miss Parker. When his mate is killed, Malibu leaves their fawn with her to rear. The villain of Sequoia is a surly poacher named Bergman. When Bergman traps a herd of deer, Malibu shows them how to jump out of the corral. Bergman stalks Malibu and Gato stalks Bergman. Sequoia ends when Gato claws Bergman into a semicoma and Malibu butts him off a cliff...
Adapted from Author Vance Hoyt's Malibu, with the title changed lest cinemaddicts mistake it for a story about Hollywood, Sequoia was extraordinarily difficult to film. Gato and Malibu are natives of Sequoia National Park near Fresno. There Director Chester Franklin. Producer John Considine Jr. and a crew of 40 worked almost two years, made 62 miles of film before they had the 7.500 feet they needed. Most outdoor pictures require a dozen or so different types of lenses. Photographer Chester Lyons used 47 in Sequoia. Pack trains carried film from location to a base camp daily whence...
...Miami, where Legion politicians had already lined up a third of the organization in a Bonus bloc, National Commander Edward A. Hayes cracked back: "I cannot agree." Mrs. Roosevelt flew right back to Washington as soon as the ceremonies were over. The President & friends drove to Yorktown, boarded the Sequoia for a weekend cruise up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac...
...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...