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#286306 Mon Nov 21 2011 10:38 PM
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Anyone see this TV movie?
It's about finding & drilling for oil in Texas in the Early days. Lots of the props were done the old fashion way w/o power tools.
Was on AMC here locally.

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it was a weird movie i must say the ending as dumb an funny at the same time


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saw it a couple years ago when it first came out. a bit long winded, but daniel day lewis finally found a character that was out there a bit further than "the butcher"in gangs of new york....

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awesome movie.. not one to watch with the girlfriend though. she said it was too drawn out


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One of my top favorites. The best real portrayal of greed I have every seen. And it had that gritty " Clint Eastwood, Josie wales" feel to it. Great scenery, I thought it rocked.

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LOOKS LIKE IT GOT A GOOD RATING (B-/8.2).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/

I WILL CHECK MY LIBRARY FOR A COPY SINCE I DON'T HAVE CABLE AND WINTER IS COMING SOON. smile


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That is a dark movie.

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I believe the movie is based on the life of Edward Doheny.
Doheny was one of the people who originally discovered oil
in Los Angeles and throughout California. I thought it was
about the early California oil days, perhaps up in the Taft
or Coalinga area, as I believe it referenced shipping oil to
the Union Oil facility in Avila Beach.

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It was about Calif. Oil instead of Texas Oil [location set was in Tx.
Taft area & parts of Texas are about the same, Worthless Except for the Oil Fields!].


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