Sentences with phrase «century oil prospector»

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Set at the turn of the previous century in the early days of oil exploration, the film shows grimy prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) climbing from dark shafts into the blinding desert sunlight.

It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields.