20 Mule Team (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.
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Writers:
Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Edward E. Paramore Jr..
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Wallace Beery as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy |
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Leo Carrillo as Piute Pete |
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Marjorie Rambeau as Josie Johnson |
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Anne Baxter as Jean Johnson |
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Douglas Fowley as Stag Roper |
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Noah Beery Jr. as Mitch |
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Berton Churchill as 'Jackass' Brown |
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Arthur Hohl as Salters |
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Clem Bevans as Chuckawalla |
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Charles Halton as Henry Adams |
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Minor Watson as Marshal |
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Oscar O'Shea as Train Conductor |
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Lloyd Ingraham as Stockholder |
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Sam Appel as Proprietor |
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John Beck as Jeff, Worker Asking for Pay |
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Hank Bell as First Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
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Joseph E. Bernard as Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
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Eddie Borden as Fifth Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
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Ed Brady as Barfly at Table |
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George Chesebro as Worker |
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Rube Dalroy as Worker |
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George Guhl as Doorman |
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Lew Kelly as 1st Man |
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Katherine Kenworthy as Jeff's Wife |
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Mitchell Lewis as Barfly at Bar |
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James Pier Mason as Third Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
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Larry McGrath as Man Pointing Out Where Pete Is |
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Larry McGrath as Alden |
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Bob Perry as Townsman at Pay Window |
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C.L. Sherwood as Barfly at Table |
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Henry Sylvester as |
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Eddy Waller as Horsecollar, the Bartender |
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Ward Wing as |
| Directing | Richard Thorpe | Director |
| Writing | Cyril Hume | Screenplay |
| Writing | Richard Maibaum | Screenplay |
| Writing | Edward E. Paramore Jr. | Screenplay |
| Production | J. Walter Ruben | Producer |
| Sound | David Snell | Music |
| Camera | Clyde De Vinna | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Frank Sullivan | Editor |
| Art | Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Art | Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gile Steele | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dolly Tree | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jack Dawn | Makeup Designer |
| Writing | Owen Atkinson | Story |
| Writing | Robert C. DuSoe | Story |
