Tulsa
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.
Cast
Susan Hayward
as Cherokee Lansing
Robert Preston
as Brad Brady
Pedro Armendáriz
as Jim Redbird
Lloyd Gough
as Bruce Tanner
Chill Wills
as Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)
Ed Begley
as John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
Jimmy Conlin
as Homer Triplette
Roland Jack
as Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand
Harry Shannon
as Nelse Lansing
Lola Albright
as Candy Williams (uncredited)
Reviews
John Chard
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...
CinemaSerf
This has a slightly incongruous conservation slant to it as it follows the battle between the oil drillers and the local, largely indigenous, Oklahoman farmers. Now forgetting the terrible song at the start from "Pinky" (Chill Wills) - who provides us with the optimistic narration; we are introduced...
