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Boom Town

Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !

1940 · NR · 1h 59m

Directed by Jack Conway

7.0

TMDB audience score
64 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • Curt Bois
    Ferdie the Tailor

  • Richard Lane
    Assistant D.A.

  • George Lessey
    Judge

  • Sara Haden
    Miss Barnes

  • Frank Orth
    Barber

  • Charles Coleman
    McMasters' Butler