Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon, a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from
California's famous giant redwood trees. The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by
a religious colony that beg him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias. Initially
undeterred he ignores their pleas but soon discovers that there are others, even more ruthless
than himself, who also want to oust the settlers. With violent confrontation inevitable, Fallon
slowly comes to question his own unscrupulous nature, and finally makes an unexpected alliance.