Bad Bascomb | |
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Directed by | S. Sylvan Simon |
Produced by | Orville O. Dull |
Written by | D. A. Loxley (story) William R. Lipman Grant Garett |
Starring |
Wallace Beery Margaret O'Brien Marjorie Main |
Music by | David Snell |
Cinematography | Charles Schoenbaum |
Edited by | Ben Lewis |
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Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
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Running time
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110-112 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,833,000 |
Box office | $3,645,000 |
Bad Bascomb is a 1946 western film starring Wallace Beery and Margaret O'Brien. The movie was directed by S. Sylvan Simon. The supporting cast features Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Frances Rafferty, Marshall Thompson and Henry O'Neill.
"Bad" Bascomb (Beery) is a notorious outlaw wanted by federal marshals after outwitting every group sent to capture him. He and fellow bandit Bart Ramsay (Naish), a cold-blooded killer, have again eluded the marshalls by joining a Mormon wagon train heading to Utah. They pretend to be helpful, and Bascomb becomes fond of an admiring little girl played by O'Brien. Beery eventually distances himself from the other thief and saves the wagon train from an attack by Indians, before being taken captive by the law at the end of the movie.
According to MGM records the film earned $2,384,000 in the US and Canada and $1,261,000 elsewhere, leading to an overall profit of $648,000.
Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main appeared in the following seven films together: