Tulsa
“Tempestuous loves! Lusty adventures! Violent hates!”
1949•1h 30m•6.4•Released
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.
Director
Stuart Heisler
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, Curtis Kenyon
Languages
English
Studio
Eagle-Lion Films
Cast
Susan Hayward
Cherokee Lansing
Robert Preston
Brad Brady
Pedro Armendáriz
Jim Redbird
Lloyd Gough
Bruce Tanner
Chill Wills
Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)
Ed Begley
John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
Jimmy Conlin
Homer Triplette
Roland Jack
Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand
Harry Shannon
Nelse Lansing
Lola Albright
Candy Williams (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
Tooley (uncredited)
John Dehner
Oilman (uncredited)
Dick Gordon
Party Guest (uncredited)
Fred Graham
Charlie - Cherokee's Foreman (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Doorman at Gambling Emporium (uncredited)
Production
Company
Eagle-Lion Films
Producer
Walter Wanger
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