Oro negro

Oro negro (1947)

Black Gold

En la década de 1920, en el desierto cerca de la frontera entre Texas y México, Charley Eagle es un indio que posee un pequeño rancho y está entrenando a una yegua, "Esperanza negra". Cree que será capaz de correr y ganar el Derby de Kentucky. Charley se encuentra con un joven chino, David Chung, cuyo padre ha sido asesinado por una banda de contrabandistas, mientras fingía que les ayudaba a entrar ilegalmente en los Estados Unidos. Charlie lleva al joven de regreso a su rancho, donde él y su esposa Sarah lo adoptan. Sus planes para "Esperanza negra" salen mal, pero se descubre petróleo en sus tierras y esto intensifica sus sueños. La yegua tiene una cría, el potro "Oro negro", que quizás pueda hacer lo que su madre no podía...

Fecha de estreno
1947-09-16
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (3)
Duración
1 h 29 min
Géneros
Drama, Western
Director
Phil Karlson

Reparto

Curiosidades

Black Gold is a 1947 American drama Western film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille and Raymond Hatton. It was the first Monogram Pictures film released under the Allied Artists banner and had the highest budget in Monogram's history at the time. It was also the first leading role for Anthony Quinn.

Production

The film was loosely based on the true story of the horse Black Gold, who won the 1924 Kentucky Derby.

Karlson later said: "I made such a strong statement that the Indian nations all picked it up. They realized what we were saying in there. The average guy that would go see a motion picture in those days went to see entertainment. We weren't making statements, we were making cops 'n' robbers and good guys and bad guys. But to look at something and see the truth, for a change, was something that was unusual in those days."

Karlson also said that the film took a year to make because "I wanted the seasons. I went to Churchill Downs for the Derby and had to do the races here, and I had to get some desert scenes... a lot of time lapses in the picture." He directed four other films while making Black Gold.

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