Big Jack (film)

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.

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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	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	April 12, 1949 (1949-04-12)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$869,000[1]
Box office	$915,000[1]

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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.