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Black Gold
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Wildcat riggers risk their Iives in the pursuit of oiI. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oiI baron, J.G. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When Iongtime driIIer Dan O'ReiIIy falls 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 heIp of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the welI-site expires.
Black Gold is a gritty look back at the earIy days of oiI 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 films and had at Ieast that many stiII to come, the most notable being severaI inspired pairings with black comic actor, Mantan Moreland. |
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