Boom Town (1940) - (Movie Clip) Smells A Little Gamey

Boom Town - (Re-issue Trailer)

Friends become rivals when they strike it rich in oil in Boom Town (1940), starring Clark Gable & Spencer Tracy.

Boom Town (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Call Me Shorty!

Two more in a cavalcade of buddy scenes, wildcatters Big John (Clark Gable) and Square John (Spencer Tracy), first gambling then conning banker Luther (Frank Morgan), Texas, 1918, in director Jack Conway's Boom Town, 1940.

Boom Town (1940) -- (Movie Clip) You Married A Millionaire!

Square John (Spencer Tracy) splashes into town having finally struck oil in Texas, telling partner Big John (Clark Gable), who tells Betsy (Claudette Colbert), who has news for them both, in MGM's Boom Town, 1940.

Boom Town (1940) -- (Movie Clip) You're On My Land!

Giant fire at the well appears to parallel raging tensions between partners Big John (Clark Gable) and Square John (Spencer Tracy), in a famous sequence from director Jack Conway's Boom Town, 1940.