Tulsa (1950)

Directed by Stuart Heisler · 90 min · Drama

5.3 TOPICAL score · #6,134 of 6,776 films

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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.

Tulsa (1950, directed by Stuart Heisler) has a TOPICAL score of 5.3 - ranked 6,134 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and audience, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6.3/10 (28 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 8 languages.

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• AudienceTMDB 6.3/10 (28 ratings)
• Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
• ImpactWikipedia articles in 8 languages
• Still read1,763 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days

Starring: Susan Hayward (actor #1,235), Robert Preston (actor #1,248), Pedro Armendáriz (actor #1,457), Lloyd Gough

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