Best Man Wins (1948)
Based on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras, by Mark Twain.
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
- Date of release
- 1948-05-06
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- John Sturges
Casting
- Edgar Buchanan — Jim Smiley
- Anna Lee — Nancy Smiley
- Robert Shayne — Judge Leonidas K. Carter
- Gary Gray — Bob Smiley
- Hobart Cavanaugh — Amos
- Stanley Andrews — Sheriff Dingle
- George Lynn — Mr. Crow
Interesting facts
Best Man Wins is a 1948 American historical drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee and Robert Shayne. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain.
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