NOTE: I've been feeling a bit down lately so we're skipping Modern Movie Monday this week. Here's a review a did earlier in the month that's scheduled to appear this week on the blog.
20 Mule Team (1940)
Plot Summary
t 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 Bill Bragg (Wallace Beery) has
a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector that he buried on the
road. Stag Roper (Douglas Fowley) knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but
he needs Bill to find the prospectors' claim so they can record it and
become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bill in on
the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean (Anne Baxter). Josie (Jean's mother played by Marjorie Rambeau) sees Roper for
the scalawag that his is and it means trouble in Furnace Flat.