Boom Town

Boom Town

1940
★★★☆☆ 6.9/10
⏱️ 119 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
AdventureDramaRomanceWestern
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

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Cast

Clark Gable
Clark Gable
Big John McMasters
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy
Square John Sand
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert
Betsy Bartlett
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
Karen Vanmeer
Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan
Luther Aldrich
Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill
Harry Compton

User Reviews

talisencrw
★ 9/10
Clark Gable has outstanding rapport both with Claudette Colbert, whom he was with in It Happened One Night, and Spencer Tracy, whom he had acted with before in the disaster flick San Francisco, in this fine film which would make an excellent double-bill with There Will Be Blood, for the price of being a prospector of black gold in early 20th-century America. Very enjoyable and thoroughly recommended.
March 3, 2016

Crew

Director
Jack Conway
Writer
John Lee Mahin, James Edward Grant
Producer
Sam Zimbalist

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Keywords

partnershipoiloil tycoonwildcatteroil field