We are planning a Community-wide celebration of a movie made in our neighborhood in the fall of 1954- now 70 years ago. The movie “Timberjack” is a little-known 1950’s Western film that was captured near Bonner, Polson, and Glacier National Park, Montana in 1954. The Big Blackfoot River is the Backdrop of Bonner, Montana, and one of several Montana sites used to tell the story of the 1954 film, “Timberjack.” Hollywood’s Republic Studios came to this remote area of western Montana to make the film based on a book written by a University of Montana graduate, Dan Cushman. Though Cushman set his original story in Canada, the theme of timber harvesting archrivals competing to control the local spur railroad made this variant western Montana location perfect. Early on, the Blackfoot Ri 6 - 8 Art/Music English/Language Arts Library Mathematics Physical Education Social Studies/History Special Education Technology ver was the best means of transporting logs downstream. There were originally two main logging camps above the Anaconda mill in Bonner. This site is the setting for the struggles of the timberman amplified in the movie, “Timberjack.”
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