Timber Queen (1944 film)

Timber Queen is a 1944 American lumberjack drama film directed by Frank McDonald.

It was Arlen's last film for Pine-Thomas for a number of years until Speed to Spare (1948).

Plot
Russ Evans gets out of the service and meets Elaine, the widow of Ken, a man he served with. He helps her protect the rights to some timber land that she has inherited.

Cast

 * Richard Arlen as Russell (Russ) Evans
 * Mary Beth Hughes as Elaine Graham
 * June Havoc as Lil Boggs
 * Sheldon Leonard as Smacksie Golden
 * George E. Stone as Squirrel
 * Dick Purcell as Milt Holmes
 * Charles Anthony Hughes as Harold Talbot
 * Edmund MacDonald as Joe Birsdell
 * William Haade as Rawson
 * Clancy Cooper as Barney
 * Dewey Robinson as Wenzel
 * Horace McMahon as Rodney
 * Jimmy Ames as Strudel

Production
The film was originally called Timberman. Pine-Thomas signed Mary Beth Hughes to make this film and a musical The Duchess Rides High.

Filming took place in July 1943.

The film was slanted more towards comedy than many earlier Pine-Thomas films.