20 Mule Team (1940)
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Synopsis of 20 Mule Team
As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes through his usual paces as Skinner Bill Bragg, a fugitive from justice who forms an uneasy alliance with slick outlaw Stag Roper (Douglas Fowley). The two scoundrels plot to jump a valuable borax claim in Death Valley, but Bragg changes his minds when Roper begins to have unsavory designs on virginal heroine Jean Johnson (Anne Baxter, in her film debut). Ever on the prowl for a new Wallace Beery-Marie Dressler screen team, MGM pairs up Beery with Marjorie Rambeau this time out, with mixed results. 20 Mule Team was originally released in Sepiatone, a tinting process MGM had previously utilized in the "Kansas" scenes of The Wizard of Oz. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of 20 Mule Team
- Wallace Beery - Skinner Bill Bragg
- Marjorie Rambeau - Josie Johnson
- Douglas Fowley - Stag Roper
- Arthur Hohl - Salters
- Charles Halton - Adams
- Oscar O'Shea - Conductor
- Sam Appel - Proprietor
- John Beck
- Eddy Waller - Horsecollar, Bartender
- Katherine Kenworthy
- Leo Carrillo - Plute Pete
- Anne Baxter - Joan Johnson
- Berton Churchill - "Jackass" Brown
- Clem Bevans - Chuckawalla
- Minor Watson - Marshall
- Lloyd Ingraham - Stockholder
- Noah Beery, Sr. - Mitch
- Henry Sylvester
- Lew Kelly - First Man
- Ivan Miller - Alden
- Director(s):
- Richard Thorpe
- Writer(s):
- Edward E. Paramore, Jr., E.E. Paramore, Cyril Hume
- Producer(s):
- J. Walter Ruben
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