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    Apache Rose

    When oil is discovered on a Vegas ranch, a gambler enters the picture with designs on winning...

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    Black Gold

    A would-be detective tries to solve a crime and finds romance.

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    Colt Comrades

    Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his sidekicks meet a man (Victor Jory) who expects them to pay...

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    Country Gentlemen

    Two shady stock salesmen (Ole Olson, Chic Johnson) rile local war veterans with a wildcat oil...

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    Death Valley Manhunt

    Republic's winning combination of western star Wild Bill Elliot, comic sidekick Gabby Hayes and...

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    Double Deal

    An oil engineer (Richard Denning) surrounded by foul play helps an heiress (Marie Windsor) bring in...

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    The Fighting Texans

    A prolific oil well means riches for 1800s Texas townspeople and the oil man (Rex Bell) who...

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    Marauders

    There's oil in them thar hills in this late entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western...

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    King of the Texas Rangers [Serial]

    In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the...

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    'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)

    A cowboy (John Wayne) protects an American Indian oil-land heiress.

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    On the Old Spanish Trail (1947)

    A singing cowboy (Roy Rogers) and his tent-show pal (Tito Guizar) thwart a crook in the auto-age...

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    Panama Lady

    A stranded cabaret girl (Lucille Ball) becomes an oil prospector's (Allan Lane) tropical...

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    The Tiger Woman [Serial]

    The most obvious discrepancies concerning this otherwise well-remembered cliffhanger from genre...

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    Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

    San Francisco's Mr. Wong (Keye Luke) sleuths with the secretary (Lotus Long) of a poisoned...

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    Remedy for Riches

    Wise Dr. Christian (Jean Hersholt) rescues locals from a con-man developer's oil fraud.

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    Riff Raff (1936)

    A trouble-shooter (Pat O'Brien) woos a singer and foils a crook (Walter Slezak) while searching...

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    Silver Spurs

    A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) connects oil, murder and a mail-order bride scheme.

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    South of the Border

    A federal agent (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) hang out in Mexico to check a...

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    Superman and the Mole Men (1951)

    When underground beings explore the surface world from a deep oil well and inadvertantly cause a...

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    Thunder Bay

    Wildcatters (James Stewart, Dan Duryea) put their offshore oil rig where Louisiana fishermen get...

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    Trouble Busters

    A cowboy (Jack Hoxie) and his partners are known as "trouble busters," men who look for adventure...

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    Tulsa (1949)

    A cattle rancher's daughter (Susan Hayward) turns Oklahoma wildcatter with a geologist (Robert...

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    War of the Wildcats

    An oilman (Albert Dekker) and a cowboy (John Wayne) become boom-town rivals for a schoolmarm (Martha...

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    Wildcat

    A broke oilman (Richard Arlen) meets a con woman (Arline Judge) and her partner (William Frawley) on...

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    The San Antonio Kid

    There's oil in them thar' hills and an unscrupulous oil company scout attempts to drive the settlers...

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    Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick

    Except for a few later guest-star spots, Dinah Shore ended her film career with Aaron Slick From...

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    Alias a Gentleman

    Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's...

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    Always in Trouble

    A woman pushes her family into high society after her oilman husband strikes it rich.

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    Beyond the Pecos

    Shortly before Universal Pictures disbanded its "B" unit, the studio inaugurated an energetic...

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    The Big Gusher

    Wayne Morris and Preston S. Foster go through their patented he-man paces in Columbia's The Big...