Best Man Wins is a 1948 American historical drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee and Robert Shayne. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain.

Plot

In 1853, gambling addict Jim Smiley returns to Dawson's Landing, Missouri, after being away ten years from his wife and son. He brings along a frog named Daniel Webster. While registering at the local hotel, Smiley bets Sheriff Dingle and others that he can make Daniel jump simply by ordering it to do so. He wins the bet and uses his prize money to finance his hotel room. While visiting his ex-wife Nancy, Smiley learns she is about to marry a local judge, Leonidas Carter. Smiley also meets his son, Bob, for the first time. To make amends and win the boy's heart, he endeavors to buy him a racing greyhound, later to be dubbed Andrew Jackson. In time, Smiley makes it his goal to win back both his son and his wife from the snobby judge.