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Blowing Wild (1953) [NR]

Featuring:
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman

Written by:
Philip Yordan

Directed by:
Hugo Fregonese


Release Date:
October 7, 1953

Original Title:
Blowing Wild

Alternate Titles:
Ballata selvaggia
Blutiger Süden
Flammer over Mexico
Jeff
Le souffle sauvage
Mustaa kultaa
Strandet i Mexico
Вихрушка

Genres:
Action | Drama | Western

Production Companies:
United States Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  US: NR 

Runtime: 90

Fighting wild! Loving wild!

Overview from TheMovieDB

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

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Overview from Open Movies

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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Rankings and Honors

Blowing Wild (1953) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.4/10

Performers

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Production

Art Direction:
Alfred Ybarra

Conductor:
Dimitri Tiomkin

Director:
Hugo Fregonese

Director of Photography:
Sidney Hickox

Editor:
Alan Crosland, Jr.

Makeup Artist:
Gordon Bau

Music Director:
Ray Heindorf

Original Music Composer:
Dimitri Tiomkin

Producer:
Milton Sperling

Screenplay:
Philip Yordan

Second Unit Director:
Alan Crosland, Jr.

Set Decoration:
William Wallace

Sound:
Manuel Topete
M.A. Merrick

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Marjorie Best
Kay Nelson

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