LUCKY CORRIGAN aka Fury and the Woman (1936) William Gargan & Molly Lamont | Drama | B&W

Lucky Corrigan or Fury and the Woman is a 1936 American-Canadian drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring William Gargan, Molly Lamont and James McGrath.

It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema.

SYNOPSIS
Tenderfoot Bruce Corrigan goes to a lumber camp employment office and signs on with thirty other men to work at the Hamilton outfit, despite its reputation as a dangerous place. When they leave the office, James Lester, the supervisor of the rival camp owned by Daniel Carson, offers the men more pay to work for Carson. Only Bruce refuses and punches Lester for his underhanded maneuvering. While walking through the woods to the camp, Bruce meets and flirts with June, the daughter of McRae, who was the deceased John Hamilton's partner. Bruce then goes to the camp, where he overhears a telephone conversation between McRae and Lang, the operation's money man, during which it becomes clear that the outfit is going bankrupt. McRae hires Bruce, despite his inexperience, and introduces him to Anderson, who is the foreman. Bruce then meets some of the other men, including Englishman "Kinky" Kincaid, Bart and Red. The next day, Anderson sets Bruce to work without properly training him, and Bruce suffers some cracked ribs when he falls from a tree. When Bruce and Kinky go to the local saloon later that night, Bruce becomes suspicious when he sees Anderson talking with Lester. He is distracted, however, by the men's uproar when the bartender tells them that he cannot accept Hamilton brass in place of money anymore. The men quit, but Bruce challenges them to stick by McRae, and Kinky talks McRae into re-hiring the men Anderson had fired previously out of spite. Soon Bruce and Kinky have the men organized and working hard. Anderson orders Bart and Red, who along with him, Lester and Carson are sabotaging the the Hamilton camp to drive it out of business, to create more accidents. They arrange a costly accident, and Anderson insinuates to McRae that it was Bruce's doing. Anderson succeeds in poisoning McRae against Bruce, even though Bruce is at that moment defending McRae to a grumbling co-worker. McRae orders Bruce to leave, and after Bruce leaves, he finagles his way into Lester's confidence with a phony telegram from Carson. He orders the Carson men to cut a huge amount of Hamilton lumber far from the main camp, but his plans are halted when he learns that Lester has arranged for a fire at a Hamilton camp that afternoon. Bruce rushes to June and finds out that McRae is at the site of the fire, which has already started. Bruce then goes to the site, rescues McRae and reveals Anderson's treachery. McRae is still despondent, however, for the fire destroyed the trees he needed to fill an important order. Bruce takes the men to the Carson camp, and after a huge brawl, the men take possession of the cut lumber.

CAST & CREW
William Gargan as Bruce Corrigan
Molly Lamont as June McCrae
James McGrath as Kinky Kinkaid
Reginald Hincks as Engineer
J.P. McGowan as Anderson
Libby Taylor as Sarah
Henry Hastings as Ling
Ernie Impett as Bart
Arthur Kerr as Lester
Bob Rideout as Red
David Clyde as McCrae

Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Written by Philip Conway
Produced by Kenneth J. Bishop
Cinematography William Beckway, Harry Forbes
Edited by William Austin
Production company Central Films
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date September 1936
Running time 66 minutes
Countries Canada, United States
Language English