Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period, are in love with the same woman.Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period, are in love with the same woman.Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period, are in love with the same woman.
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- 2 nominations total
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- TriviaClark Gable was anxious to do the film because his father had been an oil rigger, and Gable himself had worked on oil rigs in Oklahoma before becoming an actor.
- GoofsWhen Big John rides the donkey at the rodeo, he is holding a balloon. In the first wide shot, the balloon is gone, but it reappears in the next closeup.
- Quotes
Big John McMasters: I'm not blaming you, maybe. But you aren't walking out with him or anybody else, understand?
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters: Him? What are you...?
Big John McMasters: Sand. He told me all about it. I had to give him a licking to show him that's out. You're my girl, see? And you always will be. Even if I have to lick you to prove it.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters: I'm your girl. You can lick me if it'll help.
Big John McMasters: Well, I'll save it for when you need it.
- Crazy credits[Opening title] This is the story of a hard driving breed of Americans - oil prospectors - "wildcatters". Made of the bone and blood of pioneers - men born of the lasting miracle that is America - they probed the Earth from early Pennsylvania to California's Kettleman Hills to bring forth America's greatest treasure, the life blood of today's world - oil!
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
- SoundtracksPolly Wolly Doodle
(uncredited)
Composer unknown
Played over the opening credits and as background
Sung and hummed at various times by Clark Gable, Chill Wills and Claudette Colbert
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- Budget
- $1,614,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1