Campbell's Kingdom

Bogarde plays Bruce Campbell, a young man told by his doctor he’s got only six months to live, who comes to Canada for some final peace and quiet and to claim an inheritance, a large valley of land known as Campbell’s Kingdom, from his recently deceased grandfather. Old man Cambell died clinging to the belief that there was oil in his valley, oil he never found. In the meantime, a mining company is building a hydroelectric dam that will soon (in a matter of a few weeks) flood the valley, putting any hope of finding oil out of the question. The villain of the piece is the guy building the dam, Owen Morgan, a crook who will stop at nothing to get the job done, no matter how unscrupulous the means. And with his company of goons, he can get plenty unscrupulous.

So, young Bruce must either find oil in a hurry or give up the valley to water. He chooses to go for the oil, thus earning him the enmity of most of the citizens of the little town of Come Lucky, because a lot of them at one time believed in old man Campbell’s vision of oil and invested their life’s fortune in his scheme to find it. When the oil didn’t pan out, they lost all their money. Now they see another Campbell trying to fulfill the family dream while they could be making money building the dam, and they aren’t too happy about it. —DVDtown.com