Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
Direction
Negulesco squeezes maximum chaos into 19 minutes.
Practical Effects
Real water cannons vs. real mud — deliciously messy.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Negulesco directed this between Warner Bros. shorts before his noir classics like *The Mask of Dimitrios*.
This was part of a wave of 1940s 'economic Westerns' addressing Depression-era resource conflicts, not just gunfights.
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