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Boom Town

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

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.

Top 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

  • Chill Wills

    Chill Wills

    Harmony Jones

  • Marion Martin

    Marion Martin

    Whitey

  • Minna Gombell

    Minna Gombell

    Spanish Eva

Overview

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.

Rating

6.9 / 10
62 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • talisencrw
    talisencrw
    9 Mar 3, 2016

    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.

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