Boom Town1940
Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !
Director
Screenplay
John Lee Mahin
Actors
Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Minna Gombell, Curt Bois, Richard Lane, Sara Haden, Barbara Bedford, Francis X. Bushman Jr., James Conaty, Jimmy Dime, John Hamilton, Holmes Herbert, Douglas Wood
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 119 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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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