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1940 American Western film directed by Richard Thorpe

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It sits within the topics 1940 American films, 1940 English-language films and 1940 films.

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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.

Released: 1940-05-0384 minDir: Richard ThorpeWestern

Cast

  • Wallace Beery as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
  • Leo Carrillo as Piute Pete
  • Marjorie Rambeau as Josie Johnson
  • Anne Baxter as Jean Johnson
  • Douglas Fowley as Stag Roper
  • Noah Beery Jr. as Mitch

Themes

  • arizona
  • train
  • mule
  • prospector
  • death valley
  • borax

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Ratings

IMDb

6.4/10

292 votes

Year
1940
Runtime
84 min
Genres
Drama, Western

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English language
Screenwriter
Cyril Hume
Production company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cinematographer
Clyde De Vinna
Narrative location
California
Duration
84
FilmAffinity ID
401815
Image
20 Mule Team (1940).png
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publication date
1940-01-01
Commons category
20 Mule Team (1940 film)
film editor
Frank Sullivan
title
20 Mule Team
production designer
Cedric Gibbons
costume designer
Gile Steele
distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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