20 Mule Team


20 Mule Team is a 1940 American Western film about Death Valley, and Daggett, California borax miners, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Wallace Beery, Marjorie Rambeau and Anne Baxter. The film provides an extremely rare opportunity to see Beery act opposite his nephew Noah Beery Jr., best known for playing Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on television's The Rockford Files during the 1970s. The film was 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.

Cast

as Skinner Bill
Leo Carrillo as Piute Pete
Marjorie Rambeau as Josie Johnson
Anne Baxter as Joan Johnson
Douglas Fowley as Stag Roper
Noah Beery Jr. as Mitch
Arthur Hohl as Salters
Clem Bevans as Chuckawalla
Charles Halton as Henry Adams
Minor Watson as Marshal

Production

That same year, Marjorie Rambeau enjoyed the titular role in Tugboat Annie Sails Again, playing the late Marie Dressler's part in a sequel to a 1933 Beery picture.