Tulsa

Story

Synopsis

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

Writers

Curtis Kenyon, Frank S. Nugent, Richard Wormser

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

13 April 1949

Ensemble

Cast

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  Susan Hayward

  Cherokee Lansing

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  Robert Preston

  Brad Brady

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  Pedro Armendáriz

  Jim Redbird

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  Lloyd Gough

  Bruce Tanner

• 

  Chill Wills

  Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)

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  Ed Begley

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

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  Jimmy Conlin

  Homer Triplette

• Roland Jack

  Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand

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  Harry Shannon

  Nelse Lansing

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  Lola Albright

  Candy Williams (uncredited)

• 

  Paul E. Burns

  Tooley (uncredited)

• 

  John Dehner

  Oilman (uncredited)