“'IT'S GOT THE KICK OF 20 MULES!'”
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.
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Cast
48 people
Wallace Beery
Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
Known for
Grand Hotel
Treasure Island
Leo Carrillo
Piute Pete
Known for
Phantom of the Opera
Manhattan Melodrama
Richard Thorpe
Also in
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Cedric Gibbons
J. Walter Ruben
Owen Atkinson
Marjorie Rambeau
Josie Johnson
Known for
Tobacco Road
Edwin B. Willis
Robert C. DuSoe
Anne Baxter
Jean Johnson
Known for
All About Eve
The Ten Commandments
Cyril Hume
Jack Dawn
Richard Thorpe Director · Richard Maibaum Screenplay Cyril Hume Screenplay
United States release May 3, 1940 · Produced in United States
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 3, 1940
Theatrical
Finland
November 14, 1943
Mexico
November 27, 1940
Portugal
July 18, 1941
Sweden
February 24, 1941
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