Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel)
Content: Starring Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, and Fred MacMurray, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Louis Alter and Sidney D. Mitchell's "A Melody for the Sky." It was also awarded the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Color Film. Hathaway's version marked the first time the Technicolor process was used for outdoor filmmaking. The 1916 DeMille adaptation features an additional plot angle of Hale being a revenue agent seeking out "moonshiners." It also omitted much of the subplot concerning the Falin family. Henry Hathaway's 1936 version, which was the first feature film to be

Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
Content: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romance film based on the novel of the same name. Directed by Henry Hathaway, it stars Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, and Henry Fonda. It was the second full-length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and the first in color to be shot outdoors, with the approval of the Technicolor Corporation. Much of it was shot at Big Bear Lake in southern California. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" was the fourth feature film adaptation of John Fox, Jr.'s 1908 novel,

Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel)
Content: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (novel) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 1908 and 1909. The novel has been adapted numerous times for both stage and screen. The novel inspired the same-titled song published in 1913. Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, a feud has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families: the Tollivers and the Falins. The character Devil

Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
Content: including 1916 and 1923 silent versions. As with the novel, the film makes extensive use of Appalachian English in the dialogue. Deep in the region of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, a feud between the Kentucky clans of the Tollivers and the Falins has been ongoing for as long as anyone can recall. After an engineer, Jack Hale, arrives with coal and railroad interests, he saves the life of Dave Tolliver, whose injury has developed gangrene. Dave expects to marry a cousin, June, but she takes an immediate shine to the newcomer. Her younger brother Buddie is also impressed with Hale,

Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
Content: who begins to educate him and take the boy under his wing. But others from both families do not give this outsider their trust. Upset over the budding romance, Dave sets out after Hale with a rifle but is ambushed by the Falins. The latest round of violence causes June not to want to return home, so Hale sends her to Louisville to live with his sister. A bridge is destroyed by the Falins, causing the accidental death of Buddie. A funeral is held and June returns, newly sophisticated from being in the big city. Family patriarch Buck Falin extends

Question: What famous comic strip character was inspired by the 1936 Henry Fonda film Trail of the Lonesome Pine?
Answer: Al Capp's Li'l Abner