Boom Town
Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !
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8/30/1940Runtime
119 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$1,600,000Revenue
$5,000,000Homepage
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Two hard-driving oil prospectors chase fortune across two decades, their friendship tested by rivalry over the same woman and the corrosive weight of success. It's a sprawling tale of how the pursuit of wealth threatens the bonds that matter most.
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