---
title: 'Big Jack (1950)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Thorpe'
released: '1950-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/big-jack-1950'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041176/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Big Jack (1950)

1950 · 85 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Thorpe](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-thorpe)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Thoeren](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-thoeren)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Stothart](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-stothart)
- **Producer:** [Gottfried Reinhardt](https://cinepixo.com/people/gottfried-reinhardt)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert L. Surtees](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-l-surtees)

## Cast

- [Wallace Beery](https://cinepixo.com/people/wallace-beery)
- [Will Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-wright)
- [Vanessa Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/vanessa-brown)
- [Marjorie Main](https://cinepixo.com/people/marjorie-main)
- [Tom Fadden](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-fadden)
- [Clinton Sundberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/clinton-sundberg)
- [Richard Conte](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-conte)
- [Edward Arnold](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-arnold)
- [Clem Bevans](https://cinepixo.com/people/clem-bevans)
- [Syd Saylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/syd-saylor)
- [Charles Dingle](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-dingle)
- [Jack Lambert](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-lambert)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/big-jack-1950
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