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Tulsa is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stuart Heisler released in USA on 13 april 1949 with Susan Hayward
Tulsa (1949)
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Add to a movie listTulsa is a 1949 Technicolor film that was directed by Stuart Heisler and starred Susan Hayward and Robert Preston, and featured Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills (as the narrator), and Ed Begley in one of his earliest film roles, billed as Edward Begley.
The film's plot revolved around greed, conservation, and romance. It was nominated for an Oscar for its special effects in 1950.
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The plot revolved around the Tulsa, Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s and detailed how obsession with accumulating wealth and power can tend to corrupt moral character. The story begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting a well operated by Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from the oil production has killed some of his cattle. The plot thickens as Lansing's daughter, Cherokee, acquires drilling rights and meets Brad Brady, a geologist who wants the oil drillers to limit their drilling in order to minimize oil field depletion and to preserve the area's grasslands.Actors
Susan Hayward
(Cherokee Lansing)
Robert Preston
(Brad Brady)
Pedro Armendáriz
(Jim Redbird)
Lloyd Gough
(Bruce Tanner)
Chill Wills
(Pinky Jimpson (Narrator))
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