20 Mule Team (1940)
1h 24m
Running Time
May 3, 1940Release Date
20 Mule Team (1940)
1h 24m
Running Time
May 3, 1940Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Wallace Beery
Skinner Bill Bragg
Leo Carrillo
Piute Pete
Marjorie Rambeau
Josie Johnson
Anne Baxter
Jean Johnson
Douglas Fowley
Stag Roper
Richard Thorpe
Director
Noah Beery Jr.
Mitch
Owen Atkinson
Writer
Berton Churchill
'Jackass' Brown
Robert C. DuSoe
Writer
Arthur Hohl
Salters
Clem Bevans
Chuckawalla
Cyril Hume
Writer
Richard Maibaum
Writer
Charles Halton
Henry Adams
Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Writer
Minor Watson
Marshal
Oscar O'Shea
Train Conductor
Lloyd Ingraham
Stockholder
Sam Appel
Proprietor
John Beck
Jeff, Worker Asking for Pay
Hank Bell
First Barfly Counting Bill's Money
Joseph E. Bernard
Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money
Eddie Borden
Fifth Barfly Counting Bill's Money
Ed Brady
Barfly at Table
George Chesebro
Worker
Rube Dalroy
Worker
George Guhl
Doorman
Lew Kelly
1st Man
Katherine Kenworthy
Jeff's Wife
Mitchell Lewis
Barfly at Bar
James Pier Mason
Third Barfly Counting Bill's Money
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Wiki.
20 Mule Team (also known as Twenty Mule Team) is a 1940 American Western film about Death Valley, and Daggett, California borax miners, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Wallace Beery, Marjorie Rambeau and Anne Baxter. The film provides an extremely rare opportunity to see Beery act opposite his nephew Noah Beery Jr., best known for playing Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on television's The Rockford Files starring James Garner during the 1970s. The film was originally released in Sepiatone, a brown and white process used by the studio the previous year for the Kansas scenes in The Wizard of Oz.