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Tulsa (1949)

Directed by Stuart Heisler

Overview

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.

Length 90 minutes

Actors

Susan Hayward | Robert Preston | Pedro Armendáriz | Lloyd Gough | Chill Wills | Ed Begley | Jimmy Conlin | Roland Jack | Harry Shannon | Lola Albright | Paul E. Burns | John Dehner | Dick Gordon | Fred Graham | Frank Hagney | Selmer Jackson | Larry Keating | Frank Mills | Roger Moore | Charles Sherlock | Jay Silverheels | Dick Wessel