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Director:
Stuart Heisler
Writers:
Curtis Kenyon (writer)
Frank S. Nugent (writer)
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Release Date:
26 May 1949 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Action | Romance more
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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Sue, the Oil Queen of Tulsa more (14 total)

Cast

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Susan Hayward ... Cherokee Lansing
Robert Preston ... Brad Brady
Pedro Armendáriz ... Jim Redbird
Lloyd Gough ... Bruce Tanner
Chill Wills ... Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)

Ed Begley ... John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
Jimmy Conlin ... Homer Triplette
Roland Jack ... Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand
Harry Shannon ... Nelse Lansing
Lola Albright ... Candy Williams
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #13400) | Finland:K-16
Filming Locations:
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Company:
Walter Wanger Productions more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Jim Redbird: [to Cherry Lansing] I don't think your father would like to see you smeared with oil! more
Movie Connections:
Edited into When Worlds Collide (1951) more
Soundtrack:
TULSA more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Sue, the Oil Queen of Tulsa, 22 November 2005
4/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Susan Hayward's father Harry Shannon is killed in an accident at an oil well near his property. He'd gone there to protest the oil getting into his stream and killing off his cattle. Sue is filled the revenge for getting even with Lloyd Gough, the owner of the oil company that was responsible for the accident.

The lure of easy oil money makes her change her mind real fast. If you can't beat 'em join 'em. Her good friend Pedro Armendariz holds out on her. He wants to still maintain his cattle ranch and only take out a moderate amount of petroleum. Geologist Robert Preston agrees with him.

Tulsa was one of the last productions of Eagle-Lion Studios which was a company that was a hybrid from Universal Pictures here and J. Arthur Rank in Great Britain. It may have been the biggest one filmed and it sure had a spectacular oil fire sequence as a climax.

I wish it had a better story to go with it. I simply could not buy Susan Hayward's sudden change of heart from wanting revenge for her father to succumbing to greed. The motivation in the script was simply not there.

This was a poor relation to a much better film named Boom Town that MGM did about oil wildcatting. See that one instead.

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