Blowing Wild is a 1953 American Western film directed by Hugo Fregonese starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and Anthony Quinn.

The story revolves around a love triangle set in the oilfields of an unnamed South American country plagued with bandits.

[citation needed] Frankie Laine sang the title song, "Blowing Wild (The Ballad of Black Gold)", which was written by Dmitri Tiomkin, with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

[citation needed] After the bandit El Gavilan and his men blow up their oil rig, broke wildcatters Jeff Dawson and "Dutch" Peterson head back to town looking for work.

[citation needed] Jeff accepts a very dangerous job delivering unstable nitroglycerin the next day for $800, despite Dutch's protests.

The man turns out to be "Paco" Conway, an old friend and former partner of Jeff and Dutch, who has struck it rich.

When she lets slip to Jeff that she killed Paco so they could be together, he nearly strangles her, then regains control of himself and leaves the house.