Boom Town

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.

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.

Nutty long-time Investor Luther (Frank Morgan), tailor Ferdie (Curt Bois) and especially alluring Karen (Hedy Lamarr) are witness to the spectacle of partners-turned-rivals now big-timers Big John (Clark Gable) and Square John (Spencer Tracy) teaming up again, in Boom Town, 1940.

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.

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