Bad Bascomb (1946)
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Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the title, whose heart is softened by a sweet little child (Margaret O'Brien at her most cloying). Just about to make a clean getaway, Beery realizes that the child is in danger of being killed by marauding Indians. He rides back to warn the cavalry, which results in his arrest but saves the girl. Sentenced to be hanged, Beery tearfully sends O'Brien off to her foster parents, never letting the precocious little tot know that he's about to have his neck stretched. Bad Bascomb is at its best whenever Beery shamelessly pulls every trick in the book to steal scenes from the estimable Margaret O'Brien. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, (more)
- Director(s):
- S. Sylvan Simon
Synopsis of Bad Bascomb
Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the title, whose heart is softened by a sweet little child (Margaret O'Brien at her most cloying). Just about to make a clean getaway, Beery realizes that the child is in danger of being killed by marauding Indians. He rides back to warn the cavalry, which results in his arrest but saves the girl. Sentenced to be hanged, Beery tearfully sends O'Brien off to her foster parents, never letting the precocious little tot know that he's about to have his neck stretched. Bad Bascomb is at its best whenever Beery shamelessly pulls every trick in the book to steal scenes from the estimable Margaret O'Brien. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Bad Bascomb
- Wallace Beery - Zed Bascomb
- Marjorie Main - Abbey Hanks
- Frances Rafferty - Dora
- Russell Simpson - Elijah Walker
- Donald Curtis - John Fulton
- Sara Haden - Tillie Lovejoy
- Jane Green - Hanna
- Frank Darien - Elder McCabe
- Eddie Acuff - Corporal
- Joseph Crehan - Gov. Ames
- Margaret O'Brien - Emmy
- J. Carrol Naish - Bart Yancy
- Marshall Thompson - Jimmy Holden
- Warner Anderson - Luther Mason
- Connie Gilchrist - Annie Freemont
- Renie Riano - Lucy Lovejoy
- Henry O'Neill - Gov. Winton
- Clyde Fillmore - Gov. Clark
- Stanley Andrews - Col. Cartright
- Arthur Space - Sheriff
- Director(s):
- S. Sylvan Simon
- Writer(s):
- Grant Garrett, William Lipman
- Producer(s):
- Orville O. Dull
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