Directed by:
Jack ConwayScreenplay:
John Lee MahinComposer:
Franz WaxmanCast:
Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Marion Martin, Minna Gombell, Richard Lane, Sara Haden (more)Plots(1)
Oil! The ebony lifeblood of American industry...and of mighty fortunes made and lost. In search of one of those black-gold fortunes, two bare-knuckle wildcatters dream, scheme, team up and square off in the make-or-break frenzy of a Texas Boom Town. In this pyrotechnics-filled film classic, the only things bigger than the adventure are the four stars: screen giants Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy as the oilmen and Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr as the women in their tumultuous lives. As the foursome struggle through the personal upheaval of love and loyalties, wealth comes a gusher? And a rig bursts into a screen-filling inferno that could turn dreams to dust. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Clark Gable
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Spencer Tracy
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Fury (1936)
Claudette Colbert
France
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Midnight (1939)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Hedy Lamarr
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Strange Woman (1946)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Come Live with Me (1941)
Frank Morgan
USA
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Stratton Story (1949)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Lionel Atwill
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Captain Blood (1935)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Chill Wills
USA
Best movies:
The Yearling (1946)
Giant (1956)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Marion Martin
USA
Best movies:
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Minna Gombell
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Richard Lane
USA
Best movies:
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Carefree (1938)
Sara Haden
USA
Best movies:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Love Crazy (1941)
Mad Love (1935)
Frank McGlynn Sr.
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Captain Blood (1935)
Curt Bois
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Tom London
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Freaks (1932)
Holmes Herbert
UK
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Captain Blood (1935)
Nestor Paiva
USA
Best movies:
Bernadette (1943)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Midnight (1939)
Henry Roquemore
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Mitchell Lewis
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Eddy Waller
USA
Best movies:
Woman on the Run (1950)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)