God's Country

God's Country is a 1946 comedy Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Robert Lowery, Helen Gilbert and Buster Keaton. It is a low-budget color B Western set in the contemporary American West. Plot Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce (Lowery), kills a man in self-defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley (Gilbert), the niece of "Sandy" McTavish (Farnum) who runs the trading post. Lee learns why this is good trapping country as the timber barons across the lake are ruthlessly cutting the trees and driving the animals across the river. The trappers appeal to him to take a petition to the Governor which would prohibit the timber people from coming to their side of the lake. At first, because he is a wanted man, he refuses, but does so later for the sake of the people, even though he knows it will lead to his arrest. Cast Robert Lowery as Lee Preston/Leland Bruce Helen Gilbert as Lynn O'Malley/McTavish William Farnum as Sandy McTavish Buster Keaton as Old Tarp/Mr. Boone Si Jenks as Timber Cross Stanley Andrews as Howard King Al Ferguson as Turk Monroe Trevor Bardette as White Cloud Estelita Zarco as River Squaw Ace the Wonder Dog as Ace Jimmy the Crow as Jim