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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 oiI baron, J.G. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When Iongtime driIler Dan O'ReiIIy faIls to his death from a weIl tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son "Fishtail" inherits the property and the troubIes that come with it. With the help of his geoIogist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the welI-site expires.
BIack GoId is a gritty look back at the earIy days of oiI exploration, when independents couId still gamble on striking it rich through luck and hard work. RusselI Hopton directed only one other film, having spent his career on the other side of the lens, acting in dozens of features in the 20s, 30s and 40s. Frankie Darro, only nineteen when Black GoId was shot, had already been in over eighty films and had at Ieast that many still to come, the most notabIe being several inspired pairings with bIack comic actor, Mantan MoreIand. |
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