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Título original: 20 Mule Team
  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1h 24min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.4/10
286
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Wallace Beery in Puño de hierro (1940)
DramaWestern

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaIn 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-... Leer todoIn 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.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.

  • Dirección
    • Richard Thorpe
  • Guionistas
    • Owen Atkinson
    • Robert C. DuSoe
    • Cyril Hume
  • Elenco
    • Wallace Beery
    • Leo Carrillo
    • Marjorie Rambeau
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.4/10
    286
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Richard Thorpe
    • Guionistas
      • Owen Atkinson
      • Robert C. DuSoe
      • Cyril Hume
    • Elenco
      • Wallace Beery
      • Leo Carrillo
      • Marjorie Rambeau
    • 7Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 1Opinión de los críticos
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    Wallace Beery
    Wallace Beery
    • Skinner Bill Bragg
    Leo Carrillo
    Leo Carrillo
    • Piute Pete
    Marjorie Rambeau
    Marjorie Rambeau
    • Josie Johnson
    Anne Baxter
    Anne Baxter
    • Jean Johnson
    Douglas Fowley
    Douglas Fowley
    • Stag Roper
    Noah Beery Jr.
    Noah Beery Jr.
    • Mitch
    Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill
    • 'Jackass' Brown
    Arthur Hohl
    Arthur Hohl
    • Salters
    Clem Bevans
    Clem Bevans
    • Chuckawalla
    Charles Halton
    Charles Halton
    • Henry Adams
    Minor Watson
    Minor Watson
    • Marshal
    Oscar O'Shea
    Oscar O'Shea
    • Conductor
    Lloyd Ingraham
    Lloyd Ingraham
    • Stockholder
    Sam Appel
    Sam Appel
    • Proprietor
    • (sin créditos)
    Brandon Beach
    • Stockholder
    • (sin créditos)
    John Beck
    • Jeff, Worker Asking for Pay
    • (sin créditos)
    Hank Bell
    Hank Bell
    • First Barfly Counting Bill's Money
    • (sin créditos)
    Joseph E. Bernard
    Joseph E. Bernard
    • Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money
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    • Dirección
      • Richard Thorpe
    • Guionistas
      • Owen Atkinson
      • Robert C. DuSoe
      • Cyril Hume
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    5bkoganbing

    Cornering the Borax Market

    20 Mule Team is one of the few westerns to deal with the mining of alkali salt in the place which is best known for it continental USA, Death Valley, California. It's the lowest point on the North American continent with heat the equivalent of what our troops are dealing with now in the Middle East.

    Wallace Beery plays a former outlaw who has been living in the area around Death Valley and eking out a living as a miner of this salt with sidekick Leo Carrillo. But one day along comes Douglas Fowley who's an outlaw from the old days now with a confidence scheme in mind to corner the market in Death Valley and he wants Beery in on it lest he rat him out to the law because Beery has a price on his head.

    Bilking the suckers isn't all Fowley has in mind. He's also on the make for Anne Baxter who is the daughter of saloon owner Marjorie Rambeau who Beery has an on again off again thing going. Kind of like his relationships with Marie Dressler and Marjorie Main in other films.

    The location shooting in Death Valley is the best thing the film has going for it, especially the climatic shootout with Beery and Fowley.

    What truly spoils 20 Mule Team is an obviously tacked on ending which made it a happy one. I can't say more, but if you watch 20 Mule Team I'm sure you'll agree.
    6BuddyBoy1961

    Standard Beery Vehicle

    This unremarkable film follows the exploits of borax miner Beery, and his Piute sidekick Carillo, in Death Valley as the 19th century winds down. The storyline is rather arbitrary--the promise of discovering a "motherlode" of borax could just as easily have been about gold or silver in another setting entirely--as Beery allies with oily Fowley (so memorable as the frustrated film director in "Singin' In The Rain") and later turns against him when his motives are made clearer. The perfunctory storyline could have been set in any-Western-town-USA and unfortunately does little to exploit the fascinating historical aspect of Death Valley, California. On the other hand, most of the exteriors were shot on location in Death Valley (in the winter, I hope) and the unique scenery is understandably spectacular in glorious black and white.

    Baxter is lovely in her film debut, though her character's presence is little more than an excuse to dislike Fowley even more than we do. Beery is his usual blustery self so his fans will not be disappointed. But the film is, alas, just another cookie-cutter western that Hollywood churned out so frequently in the 30's and 40's; in other words, an inoffensive time-filler.
    6jjnxn-1

    So where's the story of the 20 Mule Teams?

    Ordinary western hews to the standard Beery persona and is rife with stereotypes.

    More interesting for its cast than anything in its script. It has only the most tangential association with how the original 20 Mule Teams actually ran, the setting is just a device to pin the story on.

    Beery is the grizzled sad sack that he always played when he found himself in chaps but if you like him then you know what to expect. What is of more interest is seeing him costarring with his real life nephew Noah Beery, Jr., in their only appearance together. Anne Baxter makes her debut, only 17 at the time she's a bit callow but self possessed in front of the camera and it's clear she would go far. The standout in the cast is Marjorie Rambeau, she's better than the standard material deserves actually.

    Best for Beery fans but anyone who likes westerns won't find it too bad.
    9RebHarkness

    A great western--and unique to the genre.

    I agree completely that Beery's westerns deserve reassessment. All reviews are, of course, subjective so w/ that said, I stand up and cheer for this movie. It may be "formula" but that don't mean it's just another western (didn't I hear somewhere that there are really only seven basic plots anyway?).. Beery as a western hero is like no other: big, brawling, boozing, foolish, canny, tougher than leather, dedicated, out for himself, loyal to his friends, don't ever mistreat the weak in his presence, funny as hell, and, you know it, mighty darn good with a gun. And Leo Carrillo is the perfect partner/sidekick. Yeah, the plot focus could've easily been gold or silver, or even oil--happens to be borax in Death Valley and Beery & Carrillo are muleskinners. It's how the story is told. This movie's a humdinger. BEERY's WESTERNS DESERVE TO BE ON DVD! Oh yes--and Tugboat Annie, Min and Bill, Stablemates, Hell Divers........
    FilmFlaneur

    A good late Beery Western

    If you enjoy the late Beery westerns made for MGM (Bad Bascome, Jack, etc) then this will be a particular pleasure. Mercifully free of the cute moppets that blight some of Beery's other starring vehicles, 20 Mule Team provides excellent entertainment value, as well as surprising quality.

    As Beery grew older and took on more westerns, so he came to look much more of a natural western star. His face become more lined and resigned, until by the time of the 40's his exterior (and acting abilities) gave his western roles a weary gravitas - recalling that achieved by a similarly ageing Randolph Scott in his acclaimed cycle of film with director Budd Boetticher a decade or so later (The Tall T, Ride Lonesome etc.)

    20 Mule Team must be one of those few westerns which deals with borax transportation and exploitation as a central plot point. But don't let this put you off as, despite a somewhat melodramatic plot (evil stranger preys on local virgin, claim jumpers & etc) the weaknesses are more than offset by the strength of the location cinematography for the exterior scenes, and Beery's presence and range. Here he has the opportunity to display his talent to the utmost, playing by turn a hard nosed villain, sentimental buddy, comic louse and clumsy lover all the while as the camera revels gratefully in his lumbering presence.

    Overall the characters in the film are dominated by the stark landscape of desert and rocks which lays outside the Borax mining town ... a contrast of light and shade, black and white, that reflects back in turn the stark moral choices open to the inhabitants.

    In the most impressive scene in the film, Beery resigns himself to death in the desert after a shoot out with the villain. His friend (played throughout with characteristic irony by familiar Beery side kick Leo Carrillo) has been mortally wounded, and dies while he watches. Wounded himself, he settles down on his own, into the scorched sand and curses the blasted landscape believing (as we do then) all hope lost. The camera watches Beery, blankly verbally assailing the wilderness condemning him for a long minute, slowly tracking back in a single take. This movement is both beautiful and moving, emphasising the starkness of his fate. Whether intended or not, this powerful scene also recalls the end of Stroheim's Greed, and is an extraordinary moment in a studio product of this sort.

    Beery's Westerns are overdue for reassessment.

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      Anne Baxter's first movie.
    • Errores
      Early in the movie when Bill goes into the saloon and orders a beer, it's three-quarters full when he starts to drink, but Josie grabs it and in the next shot of the three of them and the bartender, the glass is three-quarters empty.
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      Skinner Bill Bragg: Let's scratch some sand over him and keep the buzzards from picking him to pieces.

      Piute Pete: Pretty soon wind comes some more, blow sand off and coyotes dig him up just the same.

      Skinner Bill Bragg: Ain't you got no respect? It's the idea of the thing. Now get to scratching.

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 27 de noviembre de 1940 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Death Valley National Park, California, Estados Unidos
    • Productora
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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