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Synopsis: In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Having finessed financing from a big oil company, formerly penniless Steve and his partner Johnny are in business...and getting interested in shrimp-boat captain Rigaud's two lovely daughters. But opposition from the fishing community grows fast, led by Stella Rigaud. Other hazards include sabotage, a hurricane...and a treacherous board of directors.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Anthony Mann
Production: Universal
 
IMDB:
6.6
APPROVED
Year:
1953
103 min
54 Views


and they're all going to

waste up in New Orleans.

Did you let me

do all that?

Why, Mr. MacDonald,

l've been trying to tell you,

l mean, this is precisely

what the board of directors

has been complaining about.

How much did all this

confidential information

cost you, Mr. Martin?

All of our

mustering-out pay.

Get the jewel box.

Now, so far,

nobody's been able to come

up with a drilling platform

that'll pass the specifications

of the insurance company.

Well, we've got

one right here.

Now, let's...

Let's say that this

is the floor of the Gulf.

Now here is the platform that

will do the trick for you.

Prefabricated templates,

built ashore

and brought out

to sea by barge,

and put on

the floor of the Gulf.

Now we anchor them

by these permanent pilings,

driven right down through

these verticals, like this.

Drive them down 10, 20,

30, 35 feet,

into the floor of the gulf,

makes it solid as a rock.

Now the insurance companies

have a big worry in this thing.

Storm damage.

Where's that history?

Here.

Here's a history of the Gulf's

storms from 1899 to 1945.

Now my platform

and the rig,

they're built to stand

the worst of these storms.

Not the average, the worst

of any of these storms.

And the insurance companies

have okayed the plans.

You collected

all these figures?

You sort of took a lease on a

dream of mine, Mr. MacDonald.

l know that that Gulf

out there is hiding enough oil

to make an inland field

dry up in shame.

Johnny Gambi and l

can get it out for you,

if you'll just give us

the go-ahead.

What do you think, Rawlings?

Mr. MacDonald,

of course l'm not,

but if l were in your place, l'd go

along with the board of directors,

take the loss,

and proceed with much

more caution in the future.

Yeah, but why take the loss when l

can turn it into a profit for you?

Profit?

l had Rawlings

check your record, Martin.

We found the word "profit"

conspicuous by its total absence.

Well, yes, l've had a little

bad luck every once in a while.

And all

on offshore operations.

Well, lots of times you

can learn more from failure

than you can from success.

You ought to know that,

Mr. MacDonald.

You've done a lot of

wildcatting in your day.

Don't you

agree with me?

Fortunately, in my position,

l can forget my failures.

Let me see that list,

Rawlings.

l see.

1938, Mexican coast, failed.

Oh, yeah, well,

there's no

government cooperation.

There was sort of shaky

financing there, too, you know...

1939, Guatemala, failed.

Yeah.

Well, there's...

There was a revolution.

How are you gonna drill oil when

you got a revolution on your hands?

1940, Venezuela, failed.

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