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20 Mule Team (also known as Twenty Mule Team) is a 1940 American western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter and Wallace Beery, who appears with his nephew Noah Beery Jr.
20 Mule Team: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter. In California's Death Valley, in 1892, borax miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade borax surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy.
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- Western
- Richard Thorpe
- 1940-05-03
In turn-of-the-century Death Valley, twenty mule teams hauled borax across the inferno of the desert floor. As the borax deposits dwindle, the Desert Borax Company faces bankruptcy and is unable to pay Skinner Bill Bragg and the other drivers their wages.
Along with the other mule-team drivers, Bill Bragg (Wallace Beery) goes unpaid and is barred from his room over a saloon owned by Josie Johnson (Marjorie Rambeau), whose daughter, Jean (Anne ...
- Richard Thorpe
- Western
- Wallace Beery
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- Wallace Beery
- Richard Thorpe
- Metrogoldwynmayer
Overview. 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.
As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes through his usual paces as Skinner Bill Bragg, a fugitive from justice who forms an uneasy alliance with slick outlaw Stag Roper (Douglas Fowley).
