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O Oklahoma Crude (1973)
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Oklahoma Crude (1973)

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Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Faye Dunaway, George C. Scott, John Mills, Jack Palance

Synopsis:

A lonely former orphan defends her drilling claim against all comers, but when the Pan-Oklahoma oil company deploys strong-arm tactics she is obliged to swallow her pride and accept help from her repentant father and a drifter.

Review:

Kramer's handsome production boasts an impressive derrick set with accompanying oil well effects, but never quite settles on its tone, which veers from slapstick to very real violence before ending on the picaresque. If his intention was to depict the Wild West conditions lived by independent oil men just before the First World War, it misses the mark later attained by Matewan (1987), though it avoids the dour solemnity of The Molly Maguires (1970).

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Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Faye Dunaway, George C. Scott, John Mills, Jack Palance

Synopsis:

A lonely former orphan defends her drilling claim against all comers, but when the Pan-Oklahoma oil company deploys strong-arm tactics she is obliged to swallow her pride and accept help from her repentant father and a drifter.

Review:

Kramer's handsome production boasts an impressive derrick set with accompanying oil well effects, but never quite settles on its tone, which veers from slapstick to very real violence before ending on the picaresque. If his intention was to depict the Wild West conditions lived by independent oil men just before the First World War, it misses the mark later attained by Matewan (1987), though it avoids the dour solemnity of The Molly Maguires (1970).


Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Faye Dunaway, George C. Scott, John Mills, Jack Palance

Synopsis:

A lonely former orphan defends her drilling claim against all comers, but when the Pan-Oklahoma oil company deploys strong-arm tactics she is obliged to swallow her pride and accept help from her repentant father and a drifter.

Review:

Kramer's handsome production boasts an impressive derrick set with accompanying oil well effects, but never quite settles on its tone, which veers from slapstick to very real violence before ending on the picaresque. If his intention was to depict the Wild West conditions lived by independent oil men just before the First World War, it misses the mark later attained by Matewan (1987), though it avoids the dour solemnity of The Molly Maguires (1970).

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