20 Mule Team
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Wallace Beery
Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
Leo Carrillo
Piute Pete
Marjorie Rambeau
Josie Johnson
Anne Baxter
Jean Johnson
Douglas Fowley
Stag Roper
Noah Beery Jr.
Mitch
Berton Churchill
'Jackass' Brown
Arthur Hohl
Salters
Clem Bevans
Chuckawalla
Charles Halton
Henry Adams
Minor Watson
Marshal
Oscar O'Shea
Train Conductor
Lloyd Ingraham
Stockholder
Sam Appel
Proprietor
Richard Thorpe
Director
J. Walter Ruben
Producer
David Snell
Music
Clyde De Vinna
Cinematography