Boom Town
Oil! The ebony lifeblood of American industry... and of mighty fortunes made and lost. In search of one of those black-gold fortunes, two bare-knuckle wildcatters dream, scheme, team up and square off in the make-or-break frenzy of a Texas Boom Town.
In this pyrotechnics-filled film classic, the only things bigger than the adventure are the four stars: screen giants Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy as the oilmen and Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr as the women in their tumultuous lives. As the foursome struggle through the personal upheaval of love and loyalties, wealth comes in a gusher and a rig bursts into a screen-filling inferno that could turn dreams to dust. No wonder Boom Town boomed at the box office, too, as the biggest moneymaker of 1940.
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Good, but not great. An old time There Will Be Blood - eoguy
Want to know what a movie like "There Will Be Blood" would be like if it had been filmed during the Golden Age of Hollywood? I believe Boom Town would be as close as you'd get wherein Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy are oil prospectors who strike it rich but become rivals when greed and women set between them. Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr add class to the proceedings and there are some excellent special effects here for a film made in 1940.
While it does play by the standard film formula of its day, the high caliber cast makes it a fun watch.
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Good, but not great. An old time There Will Be Blood - eoguy
Want to know what a movie like "There Will Be Blood" would be like if it had been filmed during the Golden Age of Hollywood? I believe Boom Town would be as close as you'd get wherein Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy are oil prospectors who strike it rich but ...