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.
Cast
Wallace Beery
Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
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
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
Rube Dalroy
Worker
George Guhl
Doorman
Lew Kelly
1st Man
Katherine Kenworthy
Jeff's Wife
Mitchell Lewis
Barfly at Bar
James Pier Mason
Third Barfly Counting Bill's Money
Larry McGrath
Man Pointing Out Where Pete Is, Alden
Bob Perry
Townsman at Pay Window
C.L. Sherwood
Barfly at Table
Henry Sylvester
Unknown
Eddy Waller
Horsecollar, the Bartender
Ward Wing
Unknown
Crew
Richard Thorpe
Director
Richard Maibaum
Screenplay
Cyril Hume
Screenplay
Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Screenplay
Owen Atkinson
Story
Robert C. DuSoe
Story
Frank Sullivan
Editor
Clyde De Vinna
Director of Photography
J. Walter Ruben
Producer
Dolly Tree
Costume Design
Gile Steele
Costume Design
Jack Dawn
Makeup Designer
David Snell
Music
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
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