In a hypothetical country in South America, Jeff Dawson and his partner Dutch Peterson have invested all their savings in a lease contract to explore oil. However, their expectation ruins when bandits blow the derrick of the oil well with dynamite and they get stranded in the town without any money. In despair, they accept the risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise US$ 800.00 and Dutch is shot in the leg by road thieves; but Jeff discovers that their employer is a trickster and they area not paid for their job. When their former friend Paco Conway meets them, Jeff finds that he is a local tycoon and is married with Marina Conway, who had a past with him. Paco hires Jeff his foreman to help him with his eighteen oil wells while Dutch is recovering in the hospital. Meanwhile the criminals press Paco to pay US$ 50,000.00 otherwise they will blow his wells and Marina revives her love and desire for Jeff, leading the trio to a tragedy.
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This from Olive Films' Blu-ray disc.
Passions run high in this sizzling Gary Cooper vehicle, a contemporary western set in the dangerous frontier of the Mexican oil business, co-starring Barbara Stanwyck and Anthony Quinn.
Gary Cooper was top dog in 1953.Oscar,most popular star ect.
Stanwyck at her best,evil,evil.........
Inventive, unrestrained film-making, and another under-appreciated entertainment from the uneven but talented Fregonese.
The Mighty Quinn.
Let's not forget Miss Roman.
Blowing Wild's one glowing grace is Dimitri Tiomkin's emphatic music score, which plays up the fateful aspect of the seductive Marina. Just as he did for High Noon, Tiomkin wrote a country-western title tune (The Ballad of Black Gold) to be reprised at intervals throughout the show. In this case the inimitable Frankie Laine belts out an overwrought, obsessive ballad about the irresistible leading lady:
"Marina mine, set me free / Free from black gold our love never can be"
Laine puts a special stress on practically every word, to delirious effect. It's more dementedly extreme than the spoof tune Laine sang for Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles twenty years later. Long after the dramatic appeal of Blowing Wild fades, the music makes it a thoroughly enjoyable show.
Worth watching for the combustible interplay between Cooper, Stanwyck and Quinn.
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