Best Man Wins
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.
Directed by John Sturges · Written by Edward Huebsch
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Edgar Buchanan Jim Smiley -
Anna Lee Nancy Smiley -
Robert Shayne Judge Leonidas K. Carter -
Gary Gray Bob Smiley -
Hobart Cavanaugh Amos -
Stanley Andrews Sheriff Dingle -
George Lynn Mr. Crow
Make it a double feature
2h 36m together
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