Big Jack (film)
1949 film by Richard Thorpe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Big Jack is a 1949 American Western film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe, and the screenplay was written by Gene Fowler and Otto Eis from the novel by Robert Thoeren. The picture is a comedy-drama, set on the American frontier in the early 1800s, about outlaws who befriend a young doctor in legal trouble for acquiring corpses for anatomical research.
Big Jack | |
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Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
Written by | Robert Thoeren (novel) Gene Fowler Otto Eis |
Produced by | Gottfried Reinhardt |
Starring | Wallace Beery Richard Conte Marjorie Main Edward Arnold |
Cinematography | Robert Surtees |
Edited by | George Boemler |
Music by | Herbert Stothart |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $869,000[1] |
Box office | $915,000[1] |
This was Wallace Beery's final film, believed to be his 230th. He died on April 15, 1949, at age 64, three days after this movie's release. Also the final film to have a musical score by Herbert Stothart, who had died two months before the film's release.