Boom Town (1940)
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.

The film gives a portrait of mental health treatment during the 50s, which was the heyday of treating mental patients in big institutions.

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.


Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
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