The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians

Pruncul, petrolul și ardelenii
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
DVD cover
Directed byDan Pița
Written byFrancisc Munteanu
Based onan idea
by Titus Popovici
StarringMircea Diaconu
Ilarion Ciobanu
Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan
Tania Filip
Production
company
Casa de Filme 3
Distributed byRomâniafilm
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryRomania
LanguagesRomanian
English

The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians (Romanian: Pruncul, petrolul și ardelenii, ) is a 1981 Romanian Red Western directed by Dan Pița.

It dramatises the struggles of Romanian and Hungarian settlers in a new land, the American frontier. Despite the American setting, including such minor details as use of the phrase "Bad-lands", it was shot entirely in Romania. A group of American Fulbright Scholars served as uncredited script consultants to make the English-language portion of the script sound more authentic.

It is a sequel to The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians and The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians, which are the first two parts of the trilogy.