Big Jack

Big Jack

BEERY and MAIN are partners in crime!...in comedy!

NR 1949 · 85 min · ★ 7.3 · Adventure, Western

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

Directed by Richard Thorpe · Written by Otto Eis

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