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Blowing Wild ()

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In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.
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Jeff Dawson
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Marina Conway
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Sal Donnelly
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Ward 'Paco' Conway
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Dutch Peterson
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Jackson
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Henderson
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El Gavilan (as Juan Garcia)
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Hugo Fregonese

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Philip Yordan ... (written by)

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Milton Sperling ... producer

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Dimitri Tiomkin

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Sidney Hickox ... director of photography (as Sid Hickox)

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Alan Crosland Jr.

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Alfred Ybarra ... (as Al Ybarra)

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William Wallace

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Gordon Bau ... makeup artist
Margaret Donovan ... hairdresser (uncredited)
Rosa Guerrero ... makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Jorge Cardeña ... production manager (uncredited)

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Don Alvarado ... assistant director (as Don Page)
Alan Crosland Jr. ... second unit director
Luis Abbadie ... assistant director (uncredited)
Juan José Segura ... stand-by director (uncredited)

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M.A. Merrick ... sound (as McCluer Merrick)
Manuel Topete ... sound (as Manuel Blake)

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Ted Mapes ... stunt double: Gary Cooper (uncredited)
Allen Pomeroy ... stunt coordinator (uncredited)

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Dudie Maschmeyer ... grip (uncredited)
Richard L. Rawlings ... camera operator (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Marjorie Best ... wardrobe
Kay Nelson ... wardrobe

Music Department

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Ray Heindorf ... musical director
Dimitri Tiomkin ... conductor
Lucien Cailliet ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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Howard Hohler ... script supervisor (uncredited)

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'Chema' Hernandez ... head wrangler (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

In a hypothetical country in South America, Jeff Dawson and his partner Dutch Peterson have invested all their savings in a lease contract to explore oil. However, their expectation ruins when bandits blow the derrick of the oil well with dynamite and they get stranded in the town without any money. In despair, they accept the risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise US$ 800.00 and Dutch is shot in the leg by road thieves; but Jeff discovers that their employer is a trickster and they area not paid for their job. When their former friend Paco Conway meets them, Jeff finds that he is a local tycoon and is married with Marina Conway, who had a past with him. Paco hires Jeff his foreman to help him with his eighteen oil wells while Dutch is recovering in the hospital. Meanwhile the criminals press Paco to pay US$ 50,000.00 otherwise they will blow his wells and Marina revives her love and desire for Jeff, leading the trio to a tragedy. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Taglines The whole black-gold border knew the 'Gringo Giant' was on a rampage! Only the girl with the lying-green eyes knew why! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Le Souffle sauvage (France)
  • Soplo salvaje (Spain)
  • Viento salvaje (Argentina)
  • Mexicaans goud (Netherlands)
  • Strandet i Mexico (Denmark)
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  • 90 min
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Budget $1,000,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Mexican officials initially banned this film and demanded that cuts be made, in order to portray Mexicans less unfavorably. Warner Bros. agreed to make the cuts, after months of negotiations during which the Mexican government threatened to ban all Warner Bros. productions in Mexico. After months of negotiation, during which the Mexican government threatened to ban all Warner Bros. productions in Mexico and to appeal to the U. S. State Department to prevent worldwide distribution of the film, Warner Bros. agreed to make the cuts. Besides making cuts in the film, Warner Bros. May have changed the location of the story as a result of the dispute and altered the title card after the film's 1953 release in the U.S. See more »
Goofs At the beginning of the film, following the destruction of the oil rig by El Gavilan's gang, the front of Dutch Peterson's hat goes from brim up, brim down, brim up again and then brim down again, in between shots. Subsequently, it is up again when Dawson and Peterson are walking along a road and picked up by a truck. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991). See more »
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Crazy Credits Opening credits: All events, places and persons depicted in this film are fictional. See more »
Quotes Marina Conway: [Getting away from his love grip] You smell like a gutter.
Ward 'Paco' Conway: I just came from one.
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