Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 17, 1924

Flowing Gold. A good, stock picture has been made out of Rex Beach's novel of the Texas oil fields. It is one of those pictures in which, the mighty forces of Nature—fire, cloudburst and general havoc— are called upon with all his strength by a director determined to jam a spectacular climax into the photoplay when his human drama grows exhausted after five reels. In this case oil is poured upon the turbulent waters, and then set alight. A soldier of fortune and the newly rich oil heiress whom he has been...

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