20 Mule Team

20 Mule Team

'IT'S GOT THE KICK OF 20 MULES!'

NR 1940 · 84 min · ★ 6.6 · Western

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.

Directed by Richard Thorpe · Written by Richard Maibaum

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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
Noah Beery Jr. Mitch
Berton Churchill 'Jackass' Brown
Arthur Hohl Salters
Clem Bevans Chuckawalla
Charles Halton Henry Adams
Minor Watson Marshal
Oscar O'Shea Train Conductor

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