

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
Acting
Duvall's quietly devastating con man — his best underrated work.
Cinematography
Bleached Texas landscapes that ache with poverty and possibility.

Director
James Keach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Duvall spent weeks with real wildcatters to perfect his character's physicality and speech patterns.
The film captures the forgotten 1930s Texas oil boom that created and destroyed thousands of farming families.
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