Frankie Darro

LeRoy Mason

Gloria Shea

Sascha Baraniey

Peter B. Kyne

Dan O&apos;Reilly, who has spent forty years working in oil fields, is about to strike oil when his land lease nears its end. J. C. Anderson of the Anderson Producing and Refining Corp. discovers that Dan&apos;s well is the richest in the h...

Russell Hopton

Black Gold

A Few Good Moments

Frank Shannon is a wildcatter with a couple of weeks to run on his lease. If he can strike oil, it turns into a ten year lease, which is exactly what Berton Churchill, who leased him the land, doesn&apos;t want; although it&apos;s a tough drill, the latest reports say it will be the richest strike around. Shannon is broke, but he brings in geologist Leroy Mason. So it becomes a race between Shannon, Mason, and Shannon&apos;s son Frankie Darro, against Churchill and his gang of goons including Stanley Fields and Dewey Robinson.

It&apos;s a cheap Poverty Row production which spends a lot of time showing well towers, but there is one great sequence, when the sabotage kills Shannon. Also Fred Toones gets a role that&apos;s not pure stereotype. Is that enough to make it a great movie? No, of course not. But there are some very good moments amidst the stereotyped story.

Frank Shannon is a wildcatter with a couple of weeks to run on his lease. If he can strike oil, it turns into a ten year lease, which is exactly what Berton Churchill, who leased him the land, doesn't want; although it's a tough drill, the latest reports say it will be the richest strike around. Shannon is broke, but he brings in geologist Leroy Mason. So it becomes a race between Shannon, Mason, and Shannon's son Frankie Darro, against Churchill and his gang of goons including Stanley Fields and Dewey Robinson.

It's a cheap Poverty Row production which spends a lot of time showing well towers, but there is one great sequence, when the sabotage kills Shannon. Also Fred Toones gets a role that's not pure stereotype. Is that enough to make it a great movie? No, of course not. But there are some very good moments amidst the stereotyped story.

Dan O'Reilly, who has spent forty years working in oil fields, is about to strike oil when his land lease nears its end. J. C. Anderson of the Anderson Producing and Refining Corp. discovers that Dan's well is the richest in the history of Anderson's oil field, but because Dan's contract insures him a ten year additional lease if he strikes oil, Anderson tries to pay Dan to abandon his well. When Dan refuses, Anderson's men sabotage his drill. Penniless, Dan resigns himself to take the money, until his son Clifford, called "Fishtail," meets geologist Henry Langford, who promises to help. Henry then convinces Fishtail to go to school at night so that Henry can spend time with pretty schoolteacher Cynthia, who wants Fishtail to be the first O'Reilly to get an education. Then, when Henry discovers Anderson cheating the local independent contractors of a fair price for their oil, while unjustly foreclosing other leaseholders, he calls a town meeting. The townspeople confront Anderson, who appeases them, but the next day, while Dan rides the oil-drilling rig, the cables snap and he is killed. Henry is convinced Anderson is behind the murder. With two days left on the lease, Fishtail is nearly at oil sand when Anderson's thugs abduct Henry and Anderson tries to bribe Fishtail off the land. Fishtail refuses, so Anderson's men shut down the drill and knock him out. Henry, who has escaped, arrives in time to save Fishtail before Anderson's men dynamite the rig and the long-awaited oil is released. Cynthia, who has since fallen in love with Henry, then sends Fishtail to military school, and he returns a gentleman.

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