Oklahoma Crude

Oklahoma Crude

1973 · 108 min · EN · PG · 6.2 (26 votes)
Dir. Stanley Kramer · Starring George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, Jack Palance, John Mills, William Lucking, Harvey Jason · Music Henry Mancini

An epic story of wooden derricks, iron men...and a defiant woman.

ComedyDramaWestern

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

VIBE

A dusty, cynical tumbleweed of a film. It's a gritty, darkly funny, and often brutal look at the oil boom, where greed and desperation fuel a relentless, rowdy fight for survival.

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