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“Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !”
Boom Town (1940)
August 30, 19401h 59mEN
6.9
60 votes
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.
Director
Jack ConwayWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1.6M
Revenue
$5.0M
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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9.0Clark 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.