Boom Town is a 1940 American Western film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr, and directed by Jack Conway.

A story written by James Edward Grant in Cosmopolitan magazine entitled "A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" provided the inspiration for the film.

When Elizabeth "Betsy" Bartlett shows up, McMasters sweeps her off her feet (without knowing that Sand considers her his girl) and marries her.

Building on his renewed success as a wildcatter, McMasters moves to New York to expand into refineries and distribution, competing against former customer Harry Compton.

[6] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised the scenes involving the oil wells as exciting but found the human part of the story "peters out into repetitious wrangling along monotonous lines.

"[10] Variety's review was positive, writing: "Unlike many large-budgeted productions carrying multistar setups that tend either to costume background or sophistication for limited appeal, this one breaks out with a dashing, rough-and-tumble yarn of modern adventure that carries all elements for widest audience appeal ... story is repetitious in its cutbacks to new oil fields and gushers, but this fact will be considered unimportant by the customers.

"[11] Harrison's Reports accurately predicted that the film's star power would make it a big hit, but said the story was "only fairly good" and the plot "somewhat thin.

"[13] John Mosher wrote a mixed review for The New Yorker, stating that "when the plot leaves the West and comes East, it grows rather feeble.

Western bars, these boom towns and their peculiar architecture and their customs, and the spectacle of the great oil gushers themselves form a substantial background of interest, I should say, which a commonplace plot merely frames.