Wildcat

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal, Chicopee Nevins are speeding toward Antril Bend, a small town in the oil region, that has offered $25,000 to the person bringing in the first oil well.They accidentally find oil on the town s outskirts, and Johnny writes a $4000 hot check for the property. He covers that by having Chicopee sell his half interest to oil promoter Gus Sloane for $7000. Sloane hires a crew to start drilling on his half of the property, with Johnny s old enemy, Mile Rawlins as his foreman. Rawlins sabotages Johnny s rig, causing Chicopee s death. Confidence man Oliver Westbrook and his confederate, Nan Dearing hatch a plan to swindle Johnny by having Nan pose as Chicopee s sister. It works and Johnny makes Nan his partner. Another accident staged by Rawlins forces Johnny to sign a note to get money for repair. Nan falls in love with Johnny and abandons her plan to swindle him. As the note deadline approaches, Johnny learns that Sloane has purchased it as a means of taking over the well. Written by Les Adams Wildcat is a 1942 American English-language Adventure Drama movie starring Richard Arlen, Arline Judge, William Frawley, Buster Crabbe, Arthur Hunnicutt, Elisha Cook and Pierre Watkin. The movie is based on story Roaring Gold by North Bigbee. Pine-Thomas Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) William H. Pine and William C. Thomas. The movie is directed by Frank Mcdonald. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Wildcat was released on 3rd September 1942 and takes a screen time of 70 minutes. The movie made a box office gross of $26 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Richard Murphy and Maxwell Shane. Cinematography was done by Fred Jackman Jr. and editing by William H. Ziegler. The music was composed by Freddie Rich.
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