Best Man Wins
1948, English. Directed by John Sturges.
Based on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras, by Mark Twain.
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 6 May 1948
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Edward Huebsch
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Best Man Wins isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 May 1948. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Best Man Wins?
Best Man Wins (1948) was directed by John Sturges and stars Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee, Robert Shayne.