Flowing Gold

Flowing Gold (1940)

TERRIFYING ... Their Lust for Oil! THRILLING ... Their Love for a Woman!

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.

Date of release
1940-08-24
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Director
Alfred E. Green

Casting

Interesting facts

Flowing Gold is a 1940 American adventure film starring John Garfield, Frances Farmer, and Pat O'Brien. It was based on the novel of the same name by Rex Beach. The novel had already been adapted to film in 1924 but that was in silent form. The 1940 film with audible dialogue is set in the American oilfields and the title refers to oil.

Production

The female lead role was rejected first by Ann Sheridan, then by Olivia de Havilland. Garfield championed Farmer, who had recently been kicked out of a New York production of Ernest Hemingway's only play, The Fifth Column. Farmer later stated she had an affair with Garfield during the production of Flowing Gold.

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