Conflict (1936 film)

Conflict is a 1936 American drama film based on a novel by Jack London and a silent film, both entitled The Abysmal Brute. The picture stars John Wayne, Jean Rogers and Ward Bond.

The gambling circuit leads Glendon to Cedar City, a west coast lumber town where he soon finds himself a job as a lumberjack and becoming part of the community. At the lumberjack picnic Glendon fights and defeats Ruffhouse Kelly Woods a burly man from a rival lumbering camp. The town folk agree that Glendon is the one to represent them in the boxing exhibition soon to hit town.While in Cedar City, Glendon saves the life of the runaway orphan, Tommy Tuppin, who befriends the boxer and acts as his trainer and is unofficially adopted by him. Maude Sangster Rogers a reporter pretending to be a social worker from San Francisco sent to Cedar City to expose the boxing scam, befriends Glendon and the orphan Tommy. ........

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