Movies and TvShows featuring "tool-pusher" theme.

Boom Town is a movie set in the 1920s during an oil boom in a small town. It follows the story of two wildcatters who become partners and face romantic rivalry, sabotage, and deception. The film portrays the challenges and successes of the oil industry during that time.

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.

Two friends join together to strike oil, court women, and battle an unscrupulous oilman politician during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s.

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.