The Oil Raider is a 1934 American action film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Buster Crabbe, Gloria Shea and George Irving.

It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature and was distributed by independent company Mayfair Pictures.

[1] Dave Warren, a wildcatter, has uncovered a potentially profitable oil well but needs more money to keep drilling.

He borrows fifty thousand dollars from an investment banker Varley.

When Varley's financial interests suffer a severe collapse he needs urgent money and hires men to sabotage the drilling so that he can foreclose and use the oil to recover his fortunes.