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...soon to get $2,500,000 more from Congress. Biggest morale prop is the cinema: the Division already has more than 100 theatres at Army posts, expects to set up many more in new camps for conscripts and National Guardsmen. Colonel Pfeil has found that soldiers prefer Westerns, Hedy Lamarr, Ann Sheridan (in that order), dislike Connie Bennett and English actors...
...what could Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr have to do with oil? In "Boom Town" the answer is, not much. Tracy loves Colbert, who loves Gable, who trifles with Lamarr. In the end Gable sticks with Colbert, Tracy strings along in his usual friendly manner, and Lamarr drops quietly out of the picture, which is a damn shame...
Just because there are four stars instead of two, don't expect them to do anything out of the ordinary. Hedy Lamarr gets the worst of it, appearing late in the picture, and leaving early after a few appearances, looking just fine but not saying much. The other three do what they have to do very pleasantly, falling in love with the proper intensity, and getting awfully mad now and then. That's the way those oil people were, maybe...
...John appropriates her. For 20 years Square John and Big John go on mooning over Claudette, bringing in gushers, getting rich and going broke like two big kids on a seesaw. When Big John begins to neglect Claudette for a saucy little baggage named Karen Vanmeer (Hedy Lamarr), Square John decides to wreck the seesaw for good...
...Like most movies that are built on the theory that four stars are better than one, Boom Town is not so much a picture as a series of personal appearances. Stripped to a suit of balbriggan underwear in one scene, Clark Gable reveals a paunch. Fully clothed throughout, Hedy Lamarr still reveals nothing...