The Big Gusher

The Big Gusher
The Big Gusher
	Film poster
Directed by	Lew Landers
Screenplay by	Daniel B. Ullman; (as Danirl Ullman)
Story by	Harold Greene; (as Harold R. Greene)
Produced by	Wallace MacDonald
Starring	Wayne Morris; Preston Foster
Cinematography	William P. Whitley
Edited by	Aaron Stell
Production; company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	July 1, 1951;
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Big Gusher is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Lew Landers and starring Wayne Morris and Preston Foster.^[1] A pair oil prospectors on a drunken spree buy an apparently worthless piece of land from a con man, then attempt to find if there may really be oil there.

Plot

Cast

Wayne Morris as Kenny Blake
Preston Foster as Henry 'Hank' Mason
Dorothy Patrick as Betsy Abbott
Paul E. Burns as Cappy Groves
Emmett Vogan as Jim Tolman

References

^ Dick p.260

Bibliography

Dick, Bernard F. Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

External links

The Big Gusher at IMDb

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[1] Dick p.260

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v t e Films directed by Lew Landers
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1940s	Enemy Agent (1940) Honeymoon Deferred (1940) Ski Patrol (1940) La Conga Nights (1940) Wagons Westward (1940) Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot (1940) Girl from Havana (1940) Slightly Tempted (1940) Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941) The Singing Hill (1941) Lucky Devils (1941) I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941) Mystery Ship (1941) The Stork Pays Off (1941) Harvard, Here I Come (1941) Cadets on Parade (1942) Canal Zone (1942) Alias Boston Blackie (1942) Stand By All Networks (1942) Junior Army (1942) Not a Ladies' Man (1942) Atlantic Convoy (1942) The Man Who Returned to Life (1942) Sabotage Squad (1942) Smith of Minnesota (1942) The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) Submarine Raider (1942) Doughboys in Ireland (1943) Murder in Times Square (1943) Power of the Press (1943) After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943) Redhead from Manhattan (1943) The Return of the Vampire (1943) U-Boat Prisoner (1944) Cowboy Canteen (1944) The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944) Two-Man Submarine (1944) Swing in the Saddle (1944) Black Arrow (1944) I'm from Arkansas (1944) The Black Parachute (1944) Stars on Parade (1944) Crime, Inc. (1945) Secrets of a Sorority Girl (1945) Arson Squad (1945) Shadow of Terror (1945) The Enchanted Forest (1945) Follow That Woman (1945) Death Valley (1946) The Mask of Diijon (1946) Hot Cargo (1946) The Truth About Murder (1946) Devil Ship (1947) The Son of Rusty (1947) Danger Street (1947) Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947) Inner Sanctum (1948) My Dog Rusty (1948) Law of the Barbary Coast (1949) Air Hostess (1949) Stagecoach Kid (1949)
1950s	Tyrant of the Sea (1950) Beauty on Parade (1950) Blue Blood (1951) Jungle Manhunt (1951) The Big Gusher (1951) When the Redskins Rode (1951) A Yank in Korea (1951) The Magic Carpet (1951) Aladdin and His Lamp (1952) Adventures of Gallant Bess (1952) Arctic Flight (1952) Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952) California Conquest (1952) Torpedo Alley (1952) Man in the Dark (1953) Run for the Hills (1953) Tangier Incident (1953) Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953) Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954) The Cruel Tower (1956) Hot Rod Gang (1958)