Hai cercato: The Wildcatter

The Wildcatter / 1937

Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.

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Wildcatter: The Story of Texas Oil / 1985

Tells the story of the wildcatters of the Great East Texas Oil Field, providing a rollicking account of the risky business of those who drilled oil wells in areas not thought to be oil fields in 1930s East Texas, as well as the Wild West gyrations it put the oil industry, the economy and both State And Federal Government through.