BOOM TOWN (FILM)

'''Boom Town''' is a 1940 adventure drama Hollywood film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan. A story written by James Edward Grant in ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine titled "A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" provided the inspiration for the film.^[1]

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Synopsis

Cast

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Synopsis

"Big John" McMasters (Gable) and "Square John" Sand (Tracy) are two down-on-their-luck oil wildcatters who team up. They fast talk a sceptical Luther Aldrich (Morgan) into providing drilling equipment and strike it rich.
When Elizabeth Bartlett (Colbert) shows up, McMasters sweeps her off her feet (without knowing that she is Sand's girl) and marries her. Later, he builds a company that's big enough to have to worry about interference from the federal government, so he hires ambitious political advisor Karen Vanmeer (Lamarr). When he gets a bit too close to her, Sand tries to take him down, to bring him back to his wife and child.
Sand loses his costly battle with McMasters and goes broke. Later, McMasters is prosecuted by the government and loses his business. In the end, poor, but happier, Sand and McMasters reconcile, with the blissful Elizabeth looking on. Aldrich supplies them with equipment and the whole cycle begins again.

Cast

★ Clark Gable as Big John McMasters. Gable's father was an oil-well driller and Gable himself worked in the oil fields, so he was familiar with the subject of this film.

★ Spencer Tracy as Jonathan Sand

★ Claudette Colbert as Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters

★ Hedy Lamarr as Karen Vanmeer

★ Frank Morgan as Luther Aldrich

★ Lionel Atwill as Mr. Harry Compton

★ Chill Wills as Deputy Harmony Jones

★ Marion Martin as Whitey

★ Minna Gombell as Spanish Eva 'Evie'

★ Joe Yule as Ed Murphy

★ Horace Murphy as Tom Murphy

★ Roy Gordon as Mr. 'Mac' McCreery

★ Richard Lane as Assistant District Attorney

★ Casey Johnson as Little Jack McMasters

★ Baby Quintanilla as Baby Jack McMasters

References

1. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/heb14.html

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