17 Feb 1983
Local Hero
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Oklahoma Crude
An epic story of wooden derricks, iron men...and a defiant woman.
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
Top Billed Cast
George C. Scott Noble "Mase" Mason
Faye Dunaway Lena Doyle
Jack Palance Hellman
John Mills Cleon Doyle
William Lucking Marion
Harvey Jason Wilcox
Ted Gehring Wobbly
Cliff Osmond Massive Man
Rafael Campos Jimmy
Woodrow Parfrey Lawyer
John Hudkins Bloom
Bob Herron Dulling
Jerry Brown Rucker
Jim Burk Moody
Billy Varga Cook
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