Oklahoma Crude

Dunaway is a mean-spirited lady who owns a small piece of land on which she wildcats for oil. Working with her is an Indian, Campos, and she disdains any other human contact. PanOklahoma, a huge oil firm, wants her rig. Mills, her estranged father, arrives to help, but she contemptuously sends him on his way. He goes to a hobo camp where he meets Scott, a sleazy, drunken roustabout with no scruples, ambitions, or decency, and asks him to help his daughter, promising him a share in the profits when the well comes in. More out of caprice than commitment, Scott shows up, and his help is grudgingly accepted by Dunaway, though she makes it clear that she's not intereste...