Best Man Wins

Best Man Wins (1948)

Based on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras, by Mark Twain.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1948-05-06
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 18min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Columbia Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: John Sturges
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Summary

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.

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  • Edgar Buchanan

    as Jim Smiley
  • Anna Lee

    as Nancy Smiley
  • Robert Shayne

    as Judge Leonidas K. Carter
  • Gary Gray

    as Bob Smiley
  • Hobart Cavanaugh

    as Amos
  • Stanley Andrews

    as Sheriff Dingle
  • George Lynn

    as Mr. Crow
Art James Crowe Set Decoration
Camera Pat Sutherland Grip
Production Ted Richmond Producer
Art Walter Holscher Art Direction
Editing James Sweeney Editor
Costume & Make-Up Helen Hunt Hair Designer
Sound Howard Fogetti Sound
Camera Vincent J. Farrar Director of Photography
Directing Paul Donnelly Assistant Director
Camera Irving Klein Camera Operator
Directing Rose Loewinger Script Supervisor
Directing John Sturges Director
Writing Edward Huebsch Writer
Writing Mark Twain Novel

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