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The Roughneck is a 1924 American silent romantic adventure film directed by Jack Conway and written by Charles Kenyon. It is based on the 1923 novel The Roughneck by Robert W. Service. The film stars George O'Brien, Billie Dove, Harry T. Morey, Cleo Madison, Charles Sellon, and Anne Cornwall.
Roughneck is a term for a person whose occupation is hard manual labor. The term applies across a number of industries, but is most commonly associated with the workers on a drilling rig. The ideal of the hard-working, tough roughneck has been adopted by several sports teams who use the phrase as part of their name or logo.
The Roughneck: Directed by Jack Conway. With George O'Brien, Billie Dove, Harry T. Morey, Cleo Madison. A storm forces beautiful Felicity Arden (Billie Dove) to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
Plot. When the Mobile Infantry defeats an infestation on Pluto, the world is united as the Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations (SICON) declares war on the insectoids. The main story focuses on a group of troopers known as Alpha Team – otherwise known as Razak's Roughnecks – who are headed back to Pluto after Operation Pest Control.
Stearns had me arrested on suspicion and I had to stand trial. Stearns and his cousin, Lois's father, cut a big figure in the town—they own a good deal of it—and I was nothing but a roughneck workingman who knew too much about opening safes. I had a packed jury, but it had to acquit me for lack of evidence.” “I see,” I said.
The meaning of ROUGHNECK is a rough or uncouth person. How to use roughneck in a sentence.
ROUGHNECK definition: 1. a worker on an oil rig (= a large piece of equipment for getting oil from underground) 2. a…. Learn more.
