Black Gold

Black GoldTwo men vie for the same woman and the same dream in the Oklahoma oil fields, the land of Black Gold. 1920s. When oil wildcatter Frank McCandless (Philip Carey) crash lands his World War I vintage plane on Ann Evans' (Diane McBain) farm, he's sure he's found the land and the woman of his dreams. But McCandless' wealthy partner, oil baron Chick Carrington (Claude Akins), also covets both Evans and her drilling rights. McCandless can only give Evans his

But in the thematic world of film noir

wanting simply to touch him

tossed in jail for murder

Harpo's pretty-girl pantomime sketch

An infant raised to manhood among savage apes

You're my kind

a British sergeant major in the notorious German prison camp Stalag VIII-B

Sent into town to retrieve an errant sib (James Ellison)

And the madcap way they pull it off places Boy Meets Girl alongside such deft 19305 jabs at Tinseltown as Once in a Lifetime and Bombshell

the ladies have their own facility elsewhere in the building

the voluptuous sensuality of Sophia Loren and manages to sparkle whenever it gets the chance to let its magic loose" (Science Fiction

He also faces a romantic rival - a czarist prince intent on marrying Lukashka's beloved (played by Renee Ador�e