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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......: NTSC


Genre................: Adventure / Drama / Romance
IMDb Rating..........: 7.1
Movie Information....: https://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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