
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 ... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's at best an average American Dream story, told in a soap opera, cliché-ridden and glossy style. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevySusan Hayward plays one of her typical tough, ambitious women in this romantic adventure, a chronicle of the emergence of Tulsa as the land of oil. |
| User ReviewDave JTulsa has its flaws but it's still an interesting film, sometimes it seemed to be purely propaganda, whose main strenght is Susan Hayward's performance. This actress had a lot of personality and beauty, she was perfect in this role. Robert Preston plays a jealous engineer that falls in love with Cherokee (Hayward). And Pedro Armendariz is wasted in the role of Jim, this character lacked the agressiveness, bravery and the great personality Armendariz printed in the Mexican cinema. The topic the film talks about is actual and historic, I could learn a lot about the oil business and its production. Good picture that isn't very popular nowadays, though. Maybe the failure comes due to the cold and little developed romance between the protagonists. |
| User ReviewClive SInteresting movie made in 1949 looking at pollution issues. Unusual for its day. |
| User ReviewPrivate USusan Hayward battles her way to the top of the oil game in this sweeping epic with requisite oil fires, back-stabbing and sudden wealth. |
| User ReviewJohn DIt's a western about native land rights, the environment, and energy, which is remarkably poignant in the present day. |
| User ReviewAllan CAn interesting twist on the typical western homesteaders vs. ranchers story, this time making the ranchers the wronged underdog in a ranchers vs. oil barons story. Written by Frank S. Nugent, who wrote some of John Ford's best films, wrote this sharp screenplay. The script is the best part of the film, with the story of Susan Hayward taking over her recently deceased father's ranch and then gets the oil drilling rights, becoming part of the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s. There are some interesting ideas around greed and conservation, but the film seemed rather cheaply made, outside of a terrific oil fire finale, although this perception may have been due to the fact that this film fell into the public domain and the print shown on TCM looked awful. It's worth watching and Hayward is great, but it's no "Giant". |
| User ReviewGreg Whistorical pic of sorts about the growth of a sleepy village into modern day Tulsa |
| User ReviewPaul CIt seems a bit ironic watching this movie today. We should have heeded Cherokee's ultimte lesson and been more concerned with conservation and less with outrageous profits. A good film overall. |
| User ReviewJoel AA stirring film about a young woman's opportunity of living on oil stricken land & utilizing the situation to stand up against the other Oil Moguls. The most interesting part of the film actually was the subtle environmental aspect through the lives of the American Indians who lived off the land. Fun exiting & full of action it's what you would expect from the movies of that era. It's considered B Grade in its day but I found the Action/Drama quite interesting. |