Tulsa
Tempestuous loves! Lusty adventures! Violent hates!
- 1949
- 1h 30m
- Drama
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.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the Oscar for Best Special Effects (1950)
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Setting
Set in Oklahoma
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Music
Music by Frank Skinner
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Winton Hoch
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Frank S. NugentScreenplay
- Curtis KenyonScreenplay
- Richard WormserStory
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 13, 1949
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Susan HaywardCherokee Lansing
Robert PrestonBrad Brady
Pedro ArmendárizJim Redbird
Lloyd GoughBruce Tanner
Chill WillsPinky Jimpson (Narrator)
Ed BegleyJohn J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
Jimmy ConlinHomer Triplette- Roland JackSteve, Cherokee's Ranchhand
Harry ShannonNelse Lansing
Lola AlbrightCandy Williams (uncredited)
Paul E. BurnsTooley (uncredited)
John DehnerOilman (uncredited)- Dick GordonParty Guest (uncredited)
Fred GrahamCharlie - Cherokee's Foreman (uncredited)
Frank HagneyDoorman at Gambling Emporium (uncredited)
Selmer JacksonOilman (uncredited)
Larry KeatingBit Part (uncredited)
Frank MillsMoving Man (uncredited)
Roger MooreOilman (uncredited)
Charles SherlockFirefighter (uncredited)
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