Oklahoma Crude

Director-producer Stanley Kramer’s hugely entertaining action-drama, Oklahoma Crude (1973), stars Faye Dunaway as an independent wildcatter during the pre-World War I oil boom, and George C. Scott as a rough-and-tumble oil field drifter who signs on to help her fight the depredations of a big conglomerate (represented, fiendishly, by Jack Palance) bent on taking her well away. John Mills is also on hand as Dunaway’s n’er-do-well dad, and the great Henry Mancini provides the music, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.