Daggett is out to stop the completion of an oil well. He cheats Foster at poker and then forces him to delay the drilling. But the Mesquiteers are on the job with Lulaby posing as a cleaning lady to get evidence.
An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...
Unknown to oil company president Ross, his man Quinn is pulling a swindle on the independent drillers. Quinn controls both the Judge and the Marshal. But when the Marshal is accidentally killed, Wild Bill Elliott is brought in as the new Marshal and things begin to change.
Tampico (México), principios del siglo XX. Gerardo Ramírez y Demetrio García, dos prófugos, entran a trabajar al servicio del argentino José Enrique Irigoyen, propietario de pozos petrolíferos. Cuando Irigoyen desaparece, su hermana Mercedes llega a Tampico para hacerse cargo del negocio. Aunque sospecha que Gerardo y Demetrio pueden estar involucrados en la desaparición de su hermano, no puede evitar sentirse atraída por el primero. (FILMAFFINITY)
The stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are solved.
Los reporteros Clark Kent y Lois Lane llegan a la pequeña ciudad de Silsby para presenciar la perforación del pozo de petróleo más profundo del mundo. El taladro, sin embargo, ha penetrado en la casa subterránea de una raza de personas pequeñas y peludas que luego salen a la superficie por la noche para mirar a su alrededor. El hecho de que brillen en la oscuridad asusta a la gente de la ciudad, que forma una mafia, dirigida por el vicioso Luke Benson, decidido a matar a las personas extrañas. Solo Superman tiene la oportunidad de prevenir esta tragedia.
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
Jeff Dawson regresa a la empresa de su antiguo jefe, Ward 'Paco' Conway (Anthony Quinn), que ahora se ha convertido en un hombre rico gracias al petróleo, pero éste le rechaza porque le dominan los celos, ya que sabe que Jeff tuvo algo en el pasado con su mujer, la seductora Marina (Barbara Stanwyck). Dawson está enamorado de otra chica, Sal (Ruth Roman), pero Marina, al enterarse de su regreso, decide reconquistarlo. Entretanto, El gavilán, un bandolero chantajista, amenaza a Conway con destruir su compañía si no accede a pagar una cuota de protección. Todas las pasiones y peligros estallarán en un imprevisible desenlace.
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
When war breaks out between oilmen and cattle ranchers, Gene sides with the ranchers until he learns that oil will bring a railraod to town.
Año 1946. Convencidos de la existencia de petróleo en el fondo de una bahía de la zona, un emprendedor ingeniero y su socio llegan al norte de Louisiana para construir una gran plataforma petrolífera. Allí, entre otras adversidades, deberán enfrentarse a la oposición de los pescadores, que ven peligrar su único medio de vida.
Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.