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Jackass Mail (1942)

• Director
  • Norman Z. McLeod
• Writers
  • Lawrence Hazard(screenplay)
  • C. Gardner Sullivan(story)
  • Lionel Houser(contributing writer)
• Stars
  • Wallace Beery
  • Marjorie Main
  • J. Carrol Naish

  This might be a film about junk mail...but it isn't. Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main are teamed again for this rambunctious western comedy. Beery plays a horse thief who romances saloon owner Main. His goal is to marry the lady and take over her lucrative mail route. He accidentally becomes a hero; she completes the reformation. Jackass Mail made money, but it just wasn't the same as the classic Wallace Beery/Marie Dressler combo of the 1930s. Great title, though.