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Black Gold (1962 film)

1962 adventure film directed by Leslie H. Martinson

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4920836 ↗
Source-derived summary

Black Gold is a 1962 adventure film directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by Bob Duncan, Wanda Duncan and Harry Whittington. The film stars Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins and William Edward Phipps.

The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 21, 1962.

Plot

An Oklahoma farmer discovers oil on his land.

Editorial summary

“Black Gold (1962 film)” enters the record as 1962 adventure film directed by Leslie H. Martinson. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Black, Gold and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Black, Gold and film.
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Why this record matters

“Black Gold (1962 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Black, Gold and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4920836. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Black Gold (1962 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.