Protraph Lack of good storyline.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

csteidler Fred MacMurray is the chief of a forest ranger crew who get plenty of action fighting forest fires. Susan Hayward runs a logging operation down the road a ways. She has her eye on Fred but he thinks of her as one of the boys. When Fred meets extremely cute Paulette Goddard riding in a parade over in town, he falls for her quickly and they are married in a snap. Poor Susan isn't too thrilled and sets about figuring a way to send Paulette packing for the city she came from. Okay, so it's kind of a lame plot....Luckily, it really isn't developed too seriously. A typical scene is the one in which our main characters get stuck overnight in the woods with only one blanket for the three of them: lying on the forest floor, they jockey for position for about five minutes, both of the women wanting to cuddle up to Fred. It's kind of amusing in a silly way.A subplot involves the rangers' investigation into a rash of forest fires—is logger Albert Dekker the local arsonist? The supporting cast also includes Lynne Overman as MacMurray's old-timer right hand man and Regis Toomey as a pilot who flies over fires and radios in intelligence. Despite the mediocre story line, MacMurray, Goddard and Hayward all look great and give lively performances. The Technicolor is gorgeous and there are some intense forest fire scenes—so why bother about plot? Also entertaining: As far as I can tell, that really is Fred MacMurray singing a ballad called "Tall Grow the Timbers."

bkoganbing Playing the title role of The Forest Rangers is Fred MacMurray who has both romance and an arsonist on his hands. He's got logging camp owner Susan Hayward kind of pining after him, but he gets good and swept off his feet when eastern tenderfoot Paulette Goddard comes out west with her rich dad Eugene Palette on vacation.Palette who plays a milder version of his Seth Bullock from My Man Godfrey seems grateful to MacMurray for taking her off his hands. But Hayward gets quite a jolt as does everyone around as all assumed sooner or later MacMurray would be hitched with Sue. Hayward's not giving up either.The scenes out in the woods are handled expertly by George Marshall. One of the funniest sequences I've ever seen in a Marshall film is when the stars are out on a river trying to cross it with the logs. Tenderfoot Goddard gets in trouble and MacMurray and Hayward are just as funny, but not so much help in the end trying to get her across. As for the arsonist we get quite the red herring here. But when the arsonist is finally revealed you won't believe the motive.I saw The Forest Rangers years ago and just saw it again for purposes of this review. The color cinematography looked kind of washed out and the sound wasn't the best. Hopefully this is a film that is a priority for restoration.The song Jingle Jangle Jingle came from this film and it made a mint of money for its composers Joe Lilley and Frank Loesser. The Merry Macs had a big hit record for Decca back in the day.Hopefully in the future we'll get treated to a restored version of The Forest Rangers.

mark.waltz As likable as a good old fashioned log roll, this outdoor adventure yarn of human Smokey the Bears is fun from start to finish, featuring a cast to die for. Fred MacMurray is a forest ranger investigating a series of obvious arson related forest fires who married socialite childhood sweetheart Paulette Goddard in spite of the fact that his colleagues believes that he's going to get hitched to his tomboy boss "Butch" (Susan Hayward). The jilted Hayward isn't pleased at all, arranging for the three of them to spend the honeymoon night "bundling" (using body heat to keep warm outdoors) after a minor car mishap arranged by her. But Hayward shouldn't underestimate her big city rival, especially when the three of them do accidentally get caught on a long roll.Mixing comedy, action and romance, this is pure and simple fun. Eugene Palette, Regis Toomey, Lynne Overman and Albert Dekker are also caught up in the intrigue which results in a thrilling final where city slicker Goddard and tough country gal Hayward come to an "understanding". Their re-teaming after the same year's "Reap the Wild Wind" is a bit closer to Goddard's catfight with Rosalind Russell in "The Women".There's also an exciting look at how the log industry works, with Goddard getting in the way at some precarious moments. As for Hayward, her loveliness can't be hidden underneath all of her masculine duds not matter how "butch" she seems. Palette is very funny as Goddard's cranky father glad to be rid of her. The color photography makes this truly a vision, and a Frank Loesser song, "I've Got Spurs That Jingle, Jangle Jingle" is a simplistic delight.

JLRMovieReviews Fred MacMurray is a forest ranger, obviously, and Susan Hayward is the woman he loves. Correction: she loves him, and he treats her like one of the boys. He later meets Paulette Goddard, and they get hitched, supplying the plot of rivalry between Susan and Paulette. Costarring Regis Toomey and Brian Donlevy, this movie contains a mixture of light comedy and soap opera-ish drama, making it a cross between the TV show "Dallas" and Carol Burnett's soap opera send-off, "Fresno" in the eighties (which I wish they would put on DVD.) And, the fires will knock you out and look like something out of "Backdraft." You literally can feel the heat, they're so real. I was very impressed with the fact they didn't cut corners in showing the real thing in an old movie like this. In fact, I was very impressed with everything for such a little unknown movie, which I think you will too.