Hester Adams weds Stephen Chase, but sheâll soon discover he already has a wife. Heâs married to his job with Atlantis Oil, acting as the companyâs roving man in China as it taps into a burgeoning market. Based on a bestseller and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Oil for the Lamps of China follows Chase (Pat OâBrien) as he obeys the dictates of the corporate hierarchy. Heâll betray a friend. Abandon his wife in childbirth to attend to a business emergency. Sacrifice one life and risk his own to protect a trifling amount of Atlantisâs wealth. Critics noted the film did not wholly match the novelâs anti-industry broadside. Yet even today thereâs enough here for anyone whoâs ever faced the conflict of career and personal life.
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