Summary
Sir Lumberjack is a rugged exercise in identity and industrial grit, centering on Bill Barlow, Jr., a high-society dilettante whose father decides that a life of leisure has rotted his son's character. Shipped off to a remote logging camp to prove his mettle, Bill’s journey takes a sharp detour into the surreal when a group of tramps ambushes him, stripping him of his designer clothes and leaving him a nameless vagabond. When he finally reaches the camp, he finds that his father has preemptively disowned his reputation, claiming his son has never worked a day in his life. This creates a vacuum of identity where Bill must survive as a common laborer. Amidst the falling timber and backbreaking toil, Bill finds a moral compass in Bess Calhoun, saving her from a lethal runaway log. The stakes shift from personal pride to corporate sabotage as Bill uncovers a predatory mortgage scheme aimed at swallowing the Calhoun timberlands. To save the girl and his newfound self-respect, Bill must outmaneuver Mack, the camp’s resident brute, in a high-speed locomotive chase that serves as the film's kinetic climax.
Synopsis
Bill Barlow, Jr., a wealthy young spendthrift out of favor with his father, sets out to prove himself at his father's lumber camp but is waylaid by tramps who steal his clothes. When he arrives, no one believes his identity, and his father reports that his son has never worked. Rescuing Bess Calhoun from the path of a log, he learns of a plot to gain control of the Calhoun timber through a mortgage and incurs the enmity of Mack, the camp bully. Mack forces Calhoun to an agreement, but Bill borrows the mortgage money and overtakes Mack on a logging engine, pays off the mortgage, sells the property to his father, and wins the hand of Bess.
