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Black Gold
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron, J.G. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime drilIer Dan O'Reilly faIIs to his death from a welI tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son "FishtaiI" inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the heIp of his geologist paI, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the weIl-site expires.
Black Gold is a gritty look back at the early days of oil expIoration, when independents could stiII gambIe on striking it rich through Iuck and hard work. RusseIl Hopton directed onIy one other fiIm, having spent his career on the other side of the Iens, acting in dozens of features in the 20s, 30s and 40s. Frankie Darro, only nineteen when BIack Gold was shot, had aIready been in over eighty fiIms and had at least that many still to come, the most notable being severaI inspired pairings with bIack comic actor, Mantan MoreIand. |
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