Movie · 1940

Boom Town

Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !

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Oil boom saga Frontier ambition Rise and fall Romantic rivalry Male bond Sweeping melodrama

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Release
1940
Runtime
119 min

Synopsis

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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