20 Mule Team
1940, English. Directed by Richard Thorpe.
'IT'S GOT THE KICK OF 20 MULES!'
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
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Cast & crew
- Richard ThorpeDirector
- Wallace BeerySkinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
- Leo CarrilloPiute Pete
- Marjorie RambeauJosie Johnson
- Anne BaxterJean Johnson
- Douglas FowleyStag Roper
- Noah Beery Jr.Mitch
- Berton Churchill'Jackass' Brown
- Arthur HohlSalters
- Clem BevansChuckawalla
- Charles HaltonHenry Adams
- Minor WatsonMarshal
- Oscar O'SheaTrain Conductor
Details
- Released
- 3 May 1940
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Richard Maibaum, Edward E. Paramore Jr., Cyril Hume
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20 Mule Team runs 84 minutes (1h 24m).
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20 Mule Team is rated NR in India. Check the rating guidance before watching with young children.
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Who directed 20 Mule Team?
20 Mule Team (1940) was directed by Richard Thorpe and stars Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau.