20 Mule Team

20 Mule Team

84 mins | Western | May 3, 1940

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.

20 Mule Team

84 mins | Western | May 3, 1940

20 Mule Team
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title 20 Mule Team
Directors Richard Thorpe
Writers Owen Atkinson, Edward E. Paramore Jr., Robert C. DuSoe, Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum

Cast

Wallace Beery

as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy

Leo Carrillo

as Piute Pete

Marjorie Rambeau

as Josie Johnson

Anne Baxter

as Jean Johnson

Douglas Fowley

as Stag Roper

Noah Beery Jr.

as Mitch

Berton Churchill

as 'Jackass' Brown

Arthur Hohl

as Salters

Clem Bevans

as Chuckawalla

Charles Halton

as Henry Adams

Minor Watson

as Marshal

Oscar O'Shea

as Train Conductor

Lloyd Ingraham

as Stockholder

Sam Appel

as Proprietor

John Beck

as Jeff, Worker Asking for Pay

Hank Bell

as First Barfly Counting Bill's Money

Joseph E. Bernard

as Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money

Eddie Borden

as Fifth Barfly Counting Bill's Money

Ed Brady

as Barfly at Table

George Chesebro

as Worker

Rube Dalroy

as Worker

George Guhl

as Doorman

Lew Kelly

as 1st Man

Katherine Kenworthy

as Jeff's Wife

Mitchell Lewis

as Barfly at Bar

Jim Mason

as Third Barfly Counting Bill's Money

Larry McGrath

as Man Pointing Out Where Pete Is / Alden

Bob Perry

as Townsman at Pay Window

C.L. Sherwood

as Barfly at Table

Eddy Waller

as Horsecollar, the Bartender