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.

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie “how to treat a woman right”, but he turns to be a disastrous learner.

Loweezy gets a beauty makeover.

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
Sign In To Comment
Comments
Show Transcripts