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Based on the true events of Spindletop.
"Spindletop: The Beginning" is a period piece short film about the "The Prophet of Spindletop," Pattillo Higgins, and his mischievous antics as a young teenager. Spindletop refers to the 1901 oil gusher in Beaumont which would change the economy of Texas and the Gulf Coast forever.