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Word: textbookish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oklahoma Crude is a dry hole. Handsomely shot, with a textbookish attention to period details, it is the story of a foulmouthed female wildcatter (Faye Dunaway). Against the depredations of the big oil interests, she defends a well that she is convinced is worth a fortune. In this she is aided by a tough drifter (George C. Scott) and her gentle father (John Mills), and besieged by the senior tough on the gang trying to overrun her claim (Jack Palance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oil Slick | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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