Boom Town (1940) DVDrip_XviD

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Boom Town (1940)

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General Information

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Type.................: Movie

Video Format.........: XviD

Video Bitrate........: 742

Audio Bitrate........: 70

Resolution...........: 464x352

Color................: Black & White

FPS..................: 23.976

Source...............: DVD 4x3

Original Format......: NTSCGenre................: Adventure / Drama / Romance

IMDb Rating..........: 7.1

Movie Information....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032273/

Runtime..............: 01:58:44

Language.............: English

Subtitles............: English

Original Release Date: 30 August 1940 (USA)



There may be a pair of impressive ladies in the cast, but don't be fooled--Boom

Town is a cool love-hate buddy movie from the get-go. Clark Gable and Spencer

Tracy are oil wildcatters who meet during a Texas strike, take an instant

dislike to each other, go into business together, tussle over a woman, break up,

reunite, etc., etc. The film spans years, and various parts of the continent,

as each man gets rich and goes bust with regularity. Claudette Colbert,

re-teaming with It Happened One Night co-star Gable, is the woman who comes

between them, and Hedy Lamarr presents a more exotic temptation later on.

Another star here is the dialogue by veteran screenwriter John Lee Mahin, which-

despite the wild, credulity-bending twists in the story--is chockfull of salty,

slangy talk. The early scenes in the Texas town are crammed with believable oil

jargon and great period touches (such as an entrepreneur who charges money to

walk on planks across a muddy street). Director Jack Conway (Saratoga) gets the

roughneck appeal of the material, and a sequence involving an oil fire is a

knockout. Gable and Tracy, who had worked together so memorably in San

Francisco, are a terrific match: Gable is all straight-ahead gusto, declaiming

every line, as Tracy underplays to crafty effect. Nice supporting parts for

Frank Morgan and Chill Wills span the entire movie, which ends, curiously, in a

courtroom and a speech about capitalism.



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