Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952), Written on the Wind (1956), The Muppets (2011), Boom Town (1940), The Fog (1980), Executive Action (1973), Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998), The Grass Is Greener (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Oil Baron movies.
Storyline: Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent Thermos flask to an old friend in Helsinki, Palmer is suspicious of the flask contents and begins to doubt the motives of his friend and those of his boss, a Texan billionaire.—Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: private investigator, secret service agent, oil baron, friend, intricate, gripping, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a research ship is sent to explore an island thought to be rich in oil, paleontologist Jack Prescott sneaks aboard, having heard strange rumors about the island. En route, the crew rescues Dwan, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. When they arrive, they find native people living in fear of a monster called Kong. The natives kidnap Dwan and sacrifice her to what turns out to be an enormous ape. Dwan is eventually rescued, and the ape captured for a gala exhibit.
Plot Keywords: paleontologist, actress, oil baron, ship captain, native, king kong, incredible ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A down-and-out wildcatter (Robert Duvall) smells oil beneath a struggling farmer's (Aidan Quinn) land in Depression-era Texas.
Plot Keywords: oil baron, husband, wife, daughter, friend, prospector, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jet-setting stewardesses Donna Stuart (Dolores Hart), Carol Brewster (Pamela Tiffin) and Hilda "Bergie" Bergstrom (Lois Nettleton) travel in search of love during the glamorous age of 1960s globetrotting. Baron Elzingen (Karl Boehm) sweeps Donna off her feet, but his secrets may divide them. Mid-30s Bergie meets Walter Lucas (Karl Malden) and discovers there is more to him than Texas charm. Young Carol is mad for co-pilot Ray Winsley (Hugh O'Brian), but must deal with his womanizing ways.
Plot Keywords: stewardess, pilot, baron, oil baron, husband, mistress, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal) is an environmental Agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt C.E.O., Michael Jennings (Sir Michael Caine), is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long as it's making money for him. He even makes commercials that make him look like he cares about the environment. Jennings is almost finished with building his new state-of-the art oil rig: AEGIS-1. The problem is that if he doesn't finish building the rig in thirteen days, the land rights will be returned to the Eskimos and the Alaskan Government. When Jennings finds out that Taft's best friend Hugh Palmer (Richard Hamilton) has a computer disk that contains information about defective equipment on AEGIS-1, he sends out his goons to murder Palmer. When Taft tries to interfere, Jennings tries to kill Taft. But an Eskimo woman named Masu (Joan Chen), who introduces Taft to her father Silook (Chief Irvin Brink), ...
Plot Keywords: thug, oil baron, eskimo, father, marksman, brash, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheriff Kyle Williams comes to Bywater to replace the missing sheriff and he learns from his deputy Fraser that there are other 47 missing persons in the area. He is summoned by the oil tycoon Fred Schist to repress a strike led by the schoolteacher Teri Richards in his company. He also learns that Schist claims that he bought the native sacred land Dark Waters from the Indian Ted Sallis that vanished with the money. Further, a man called Rene Laroque is sabotaging the facility. Kyle gets closer to Teri while he looks for Laroque, and soon he realizes that something in the swamp seems to be protecting Dark Waters.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: monster, oil baron, son, sheriff, native american, rousing, brutal ...
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