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Boom Town (1940)
Directed by Jack Conway
“Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !”
Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western · 1h 59m
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.
Cast
Clark Gable
Big John McMasters
Spencer Tracy
Square John Sand
Claudette Colbert
Betsy Bartlett
Hedy Lamarr
Karen Vanmeer
Frank Morgan
Luther Aldrich
Lionel Atwill
Harry Compton
Chill Wills
Harmony Jones
Marion Martin
Whitey
Minna Gombell
Spanish Eva
Joe Yule
Ed Murphy
Horace Murphy
Tom Murphy
Marietta Canty
Maid
Crew
- Director
- Jack Conway
- Screenplay
- John Lee Mahin
- Director of Photography
- Harold Rosson
- Original Music Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Editor
- Blanche Sewell
- Producer
- Sam Zimbalist
Details
- Release date
- 1940-08-30
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget
- $1,600,000
- Box office
- $5,000,000