Oils Well!

(1923)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 19 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1923

Runtime: 25 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Mark Goldaine

Cast: Monty Banks, Robert Gray, Ena Gregory, Jeffrey Osborne, Mark Hamilton

Plot

Set in the oil-soaked country of “Chilitina”—shot on location in San Diego’s Balboa Park—Oils Well! follows the travails of Monty, an everyman office clerk, who thinks only of his boss’s daughter. When Herbert Hester, an oilman “so crooked he cheats when counting his pulse,” schemes to cover up the company’s new gusher so he can claim it himself and get the girl, Monty swings into action. He eludes the hapless Chilitinan army, sidesteps the General’s amorous wife, thwarts Herbert, and saves the day.