Big Jack (1949)
1h 25m
Running Time
April 12, 1949Release Date
Big Jack (1949)
1h 25m
Running Time
April 12, 1949Release Date
Plot.
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Wallace Beery
Big Jack Horner
Richard Conte
Dr. Alexander Meade
Marjorie Main
Flapjack Kate
Edward Arnold
Mayor Mahoney
Vanessa Brown
Patricia Mahoney
Richard Thorpe
Director
Clinton Sundberg
C. Petronius Smith
Marvin Borowsky
Writer
Charles Dingle
Mathias Taylor
Otto Eis
Writer
Clem Bevans
Saltlick Joe
Will Wright
Will Farnsworth
Gene Fowler
Writer
Jack Lambert
Bud Valentine
Ben Hecht
Writer
Syd Saylor
Pokey
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 12, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Content RatingNR
Budget$869,000
Box Office$915,000
Genres
Wiki.
Big Jack is a 1949 American Western film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe, and the screenplay was written by Gene Fowler and Otto Eis from the novel by Robert Thoeren. The picture is a comedy-drama, set on the American frontier in the early 1800s, about outlaws who befriend a young doctor in legal trouble for acquiring corpses for anatomical research.
This was Wallace Beery's final film, believed to be his 230th. He died on April 15, 1949, at age 64, three days after this movie's release. Also the final film to have a musical score by Herbert Stothart, who had died two months before the film's release.