Boom Town (1940)
Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !
119 min
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.
- Release date
- August 30, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,600,000
- Box office
- $5,000,000
Trailer
Cast
- Clark Gable as Big John McMasters
- Spencer Tracy as Square John Sand
- Claudette Colbert as Betsy Bartlett
- Hedy Lamarr as Karen Vanmeer
- Frank Morgan as Luther Aldrich
- Lionel Atwill as Harry Compton
- Chill Wills as Harmony Jones
- Marion Martin as Whitey
- Minna Gombell as Spanish Eva
- Joe Yule as Ed Murphy
Crew
- Jack Conway · Director
- John Lee Mahin · Writer
- James Edward Grant · Writer
- Sam Zimbalist · Producer
- Franz Waxman · Composer
- Harold Rosson · Cinematographer
- Blanche Sewell · Editor