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arfdawg-1 The Plot: 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.This is a very dated movie. I mean there's a guy riding horseback in a suit! It was interesting to me to see Chill Wills from the 40s. I know him from his 60s and 70s Westerns when he was a craggy old son of a gun.The movie is rather slow and the topic is not really explored in a smart or effective way. It's not that it's a bad movie, it's just rather trivial.After a while you just kinda space out because it's not all that compelling.

jacobs-greenwood Producer Walter Wanger and director Stuart Heisler shared a Special Effects Academy Award nomination for the action in this average (Technicolor) romance drama set in 1920's Oklahoma. It begins like an advertisement for the titled city and the oil business but ends by making a case for land conservation.Lovely Susan Hayward plays Cherokee Lansing, the daughter of a rancher that was accidentally killed by oilmen such that she ambitiously pursues revenge on the responsible party, Bruce Tanner (Lloyd Gough), with help from Native American Jim Redbird (Pedro Armendáriz) and Brad Brady (Robert Preston), the son of an "oil- catter" (Ed Begley) who'd left his leases to her.All three men are romantically interested in Cherokee. Chill Wills narrates and plays a colorful character named Pinky Jimpson, a blood cousin of Cherokee that calls everyone else "cousin" as a term of endearment. Jimmy Conlin appears briefly as the wildcatter's accountant Homer Triplette.Brad is the engineer that helps Cherokee strike oil on Jim's land in the nick of time (e.g. before Tanner forecloses on her) but is then driven by her newfound wealth and greed such that she and Bruce become partners. Distraught with the reality that his land will soon become unfit for ranching per all the oil derricks to be built there, Jim starts a fire that quickly spreads and consumes much of the Lansing-Tanner oilfields before all the primary characters work together to stop it.The raging fires and explosions to create the necessary fire line contributed to the Oscar nominated effects. Selmer Jackson is among those who appear uncredited.

Spikeopath 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 cinematography by Winton C. Hoch.It's Tulsa at the start of the oil boom and when Cherokee Lansing's (Hayward) rancher father is killed in a fight, she decides to take on the Tanner Oil Company by setting up her own oil wells. But at what cost to the grazing land of the ranchers?Perfect material for Hayward to get her teeth into, Tulsa is no great movie, but it a good one. Sensible ethics battle greed and revenge as Hayward's Cherokee Lensing lands in a male dominated industry and kicks ass whilst making the boys hearts sway. She's smart, confident and ambitious, but she's too driven to see the painfully obvious pitfalls of her motives, or even what she has become. It all builds to a furious climax, where fires rage both on land and in hearts, the American dream ablaze and crumbling, the effects and model work wonderfully pleasing.Slow in parts, too melodramatic in others, but Hayward, Preston, Gough and the finale more than make this worth your time. 7/10

kidboots By the end of the 40s Susan Hayward had already proved that she could do it all. Whatever role she was given, from costume drama ("Jack London" (1943), "The Lost Moment" (1947), "Tap Roots" (1948)) to film noir ("Deadline at Dawn" (1946), "They Won't Believe Me" (1947)) she approached each role with a burning intensity that made you believe in her. The ads proclaimed "Miss Cherokee Lansing - Half Wildcat...Half Angel...All Woman"!!! and "Tulsa" gave Susan her most exciting role of the decade. It was certainly (apart from "The Red Shoes") one of Eagle Lion's most elaborate productions and a top money grosser.After the death of her father in an oil field disaster, Cherokee Lansing (Susan Hayward) is determined to find justice from oil boss Bruce Tanner (Lloyd Gough). Her father had been a rancher and had been caught in an oil explosion when he went to complain about the oil seepage polluting his cattle's drinking water. She hits a brick wall - Tanner will assume no responsibility, not only for her father's death but also for the death of the expensive cattle her father had spent all his money on. A chance meeting with an eccentric character "Crude Oil" Johnny (Edward Begley) finds her the owner of several deeds to properties that may or may not have oil on them. She is then joined by "Crude Oil" Johnny's son, "Broncho" Brady (Robert Preston) - a geologist, who helps her. Money is running out and Cherokee goes to Tanner for a deal - if, within three weeks, she has not struck oil, the leases are his. Just when all hope is lost, oil is struck and Cherokee is soon being called "Oil Queen of Tulsa".Jim Redbird (Pedro Armendariz) Cherokee's childhood friend is not particularly happy. Cherokee is ambitious and wants to buy up more grazing land to put up oil rigs on. Jim can see the oil is destroying the grazing land but Cherokee, even though she realises the danger of pollution, wants to match Tanner's out put. Tanner and Cherokee sign a deal to merge and Brady, disgusted, breaks off their engagement. Tanner suggests they drill on Jim's land but he refuses to give permission and Tanner takes him to court. The plan is for Jim to be declared mentally incompetent unless he consents. Jim drives out to his ranch in a daze and a huge fire breaks out. The fire is a spectacular climax and Cherokee, who drives out to save Jim, is suddenly surrounded by a ring of fire.Cherokee Lansing was a typical Hayward heroine - tough on the outside but vulnerable inside, determined to achieve success but making mistakes along the way. Lola Albright, as Candy, shared one of the wittiest moments in the film with Cherokee - "Cherokee - isn't that kind of Indianish" to which Cherry replies "Candy - isn't that kind of stickyish"!!! Unfortunately, she would have to wait until "Peter Gunn" came at the end of the 50s for her to find TV fame as Edie Hart.Highly Recommended.