Best Man Wins (1948)
Based on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras, by Mark Twain.
78 min
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.
- Release date
- May 6, 1948
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- 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
- Billy Sheffield as Monty Carter
- Marietta Canty as Hester
- Paul E. Burns as Bartender
Crew
- John Sturges · Director
- Edward Huebsch · Writer
- Mark Twain · Writer
- Ted Richmond · Producer
- Vincent J. Farrar · Cinematographer
- James Sweeney · Editor