Gladstone as Timber Baron

[Kai Saarto]

Finnish TV broadcasted about a week ago this old Kirk Douglas movie 
called "The Big Trees" (1952). It takes place in 1900, when a corrupt 
timber baron Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) plans to take advantage of a new 
law and make millions of Dollars off the California redwood. Much of the 
land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try 
to persuade him to spare the giant trees.

When I saw main character first time on the screen I first noticed that 
Kirk's hair was done just like Gladstone's (check out: 
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007G20Y.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Soon its revealed that Fallon is a lucky character who has a lucky charm 
  around his neck that he values greatly.

This was probably all just a coincidence, but it made me think if 
film-makers have been borrowing ideas from Carl Barks before George 
Lucas or Steven Spielberg?

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- Kai Saarto
http://www.perunamaa.net/donrosa