Flowing Gold
About Flowing Gold
Ex-soldier Calvin Gray (Milton Sills) arrives in the Texas oil fields and falls in with the newly rich Briskow family. He keeps them from a business collapse, pulls son Buddy away from a bad marriage, and goes after the officer whose perjury got him dismissed from the army. He and Allegheny Briskow (Anna Q. Nilsson) fall in love. A cloudburst floods the field with burning oil, lightning hits a gusher, and Allegheny gets him out.
Cast & crew
More about Flowing Gold
Joseph De Grasse directed. Richard Walton Tully produced and wrote the adaptation of Rex Beach's novel, serialized in Hearst's International in 1921–22. Roy Carpenter and Gilbert Warrenton photographed it. LeRoy Stone edited. First National released it on 1 March 1924.
Themes
Background
A March 1924 First National silent, set in the Texas boom that Beach had been writing about in magazine serials.
Making
Tully produced his own adaptation of the Rex Beach serial and cast Sills as the discharged soldier who straightens out an oil-rich family.
Look
Roy Carpenter and Gilbert Warrenton photographed the oil-field flood and the burning gusher.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Alice Calhoun plays Barbara Parker, Crauford Kent plays Henry Nelson, and John Roche plays Buddy Briskow.
- Cissy Fitzgerald plays the character billed as the Suicide Blonde. Josephine Crowell and Bert Woodruff play Ma and Pa Briskow.
- The climax is a flood with burning oil on the water after lightning strikes a gusher.
Scenes
- Lightning hits a gusher and burning oil rides the floodwater.
- Allegheny pulls Calvin out of that flood.
Influenced by
- Flowing Gold (Rex Beach serial)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
