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6.3/10 • 20

1949-04-131h 30m

Drama

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

Directors
Stuart Heisler
Editors
Terry O. Morse

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Susan Hayward

    Susan Hayward

    Cherokee Lansing

  2. Robert Preston

    Robert Preston

    Brad Brady

  3. Pedro Armendáriz

    Pedro Armendáriz

    Jim Redbird

  4. Lloyd Gough

    Lloyd Gough

    Bruce Tanner

  5. Chill Wills

    Chill Wills

    Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)

  6. Ed Begley

    Ed Begley

    John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)

  7. Jimmy Conlin

    Jimmy Conlin

    Homer Triplette

  8. Roland Jack

    Roland Jack

    Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand

  9. Harry Shannon

    Harry Shannon

    Nelse Lansing

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John Chard

May 7, 2015

7/10

Seynatawnee means Red Hair, but to him it means Boss! Tulsa is directed by Stuart Heisler and adapted to screenplay by Frank S. Nugent and Curtis Kenyon from a Richard Wormser story. It stars Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough and Ed Begley. Music is by Frank Skinner and cinematography by Winton C. Hoch. It's Tulsa at the start of the oil boom and when Cherokee Lansing's (Hayward) rancher father is killed in a fight, she decides to take on the Tanner Oil Company by setting up her own oil wells. But at what cost to the grazing land of the ranchers? Perfect material for Hayward to get her teeth into, Tulsa is no great movie, but it a good one. Sensible ethics battle greed and revenge as Hayward's Cherokee Lensing lands in a male dominated industry and kicks ass whilst making the boys hearts sway. She's smart, confident and ambitious, but she's too driven to see the painfully obvious pitfalls of her motives, or even what she has become. It all builds to a furious climax, where fires rage both on land and in hearts, the American dream ablaze and crumbling, the effects and model work wonderfully pleasing. Slow in parts, too melodramatic in others, but Hayward, Preston, Gough and the finale more than make this worth your time. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
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