The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936 theatrical poster
Directed byHenry Hathaway
Written byGrover Jones
Horace McCoy
Screenplay byHarvey F. Thew
Based onThe Trail of the Lonesome Pine
(1908 novel)
by John Fox Jr.
Produced byWalter Wanger
StarringFred MacMurray
Sylvia Sidney
Henry Fonda
CinematographyRobert C. Bruce
W. Howard Greene
Edited byRobert Bischoff
Music byGerard Carbonara
Hugo Friedhofer
Production
company
Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 13, 1936 (1936-03-13)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$621,864
Box office$1.7 million

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway for Paramount Pictures, and starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. It is based on the 1908 novel by John Fox Jr., the fourth such adaptation, and centers on a pair of star-crossed lovers in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield.

This was the second full-length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and the first in color to be shot outdoors, with the approval of the Technicolor Corporation. Much of it was shot at Big Bear Lake in southern California. It was released by Paramount on March 13, 1936 to positive reviews and commercial success.