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20 Mule Team 1940 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.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language English
Gnere Western
Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date 3 May 1940
84 mins
Cast
Wallace Beery Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
Leo Carrillo Piute Pete
Marjorie Rambeau Josie Johnson
Anne Baxter Jean Johnson
Douglas Fowley Stag Roper
Berton Churchill 'Jackass' Brown
Arthur Hohl Salters
Clem Bevans Chuckawalla
Charles Halton Henry Adams
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
Rube Dalroy Worker
George Guhl Doorman
Lew Kelly 1st Man
Mitchell Lewis Barfly at Bar
James Pier Mason Third Barfly Counting Bill's Money
Larry McGrath Man Pointing Out Where Pete Is
Bob Perry Townsman at Pay Window
C.L. Sherwood Barfly at Table
Eddy Waller Horsecollar, the Bartender