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20 Mule Team (aka Twenty Mule Team) is a 1940 American Western film about Death Valley, and Daggett, California borax miners starring Wallace Beery and Anne Baxter, and remains an extremely rare opportunity to watch Beery work with his nephew Noah Beery, Jr., who played "Rocky" on television's The Rockford Files 35 years later. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe and originally released in Sepiatone, a brown and white process used by the studio the previous year for the Kansas scenes in The Wizard of Oz.
Original Release
05/03/1940
US Release
05/03/1940
Cast
Name | Character |
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Wallace Beery | Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy / Skinner Bill Bragg |
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 |
Directors
Writers
Owen Atkinson, Robert C. DuSoe, Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Cast
Name | Character |
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Wallace Beery | Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy / Skinner Bill Bragg |
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 / Conductor |
Lloyd Ingraham | Stockholder |
Sam Appel | Proprietor |
John Beck | Jeff, Worker Asking for Pay |
Hank Bell | First Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
Joseph E. Bernard | Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
Eddie Borden | Fifth Barfly Counting Bill's Money |
Ed Brady | Barfly at Table |
George Chesebro | Worker |
Producers
Name | Role |
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J. Walter Ruben | Producer |