About
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.
Theatrical
May 3, 1940
Director
Writers
Producer
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast
Full credits →W
Wallace Beery
Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
L
Leo Carrillo
Piute Pete
M
Marjorie Rambeau
Josie Johnson
A
Anne Baxter
Jean Johnson
D
Douglas Fowley
Stag Roper
N
Noah Beery Jr.
Mitch
B
Berton Churchill
'Jackass' Brown
A
Arthur Hohl
Salters
C
Clem Bevans
Chuckawalla
C
Charles Halton
Henry Adams
M
Minor Watson
Marshal
O
Oscar O'Shea
Train Conductor
L
Lloyd Ingraham
Stockholder
S
Sam Appel
Proprietor
J
John Beck
Jeff, Worker Asking for Pay
H
Hank Bell
First Barfly Counting Bill's Money
J
Joseph E. Bernard
Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money
E
Eddie Borden
Fifth Barfly Counting Bill's Money
E
Ed Brady
Barfly at Table
G
George Chesebro
Worker
