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Tulsa DVD Cover |
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| Directed by | Stuart Heisler |
| Produced by | Walter Wanger Edward Lasker |
| Written by | Curtis Kenyon Frank S. Nugent Richard Wormser (story) |
| Narrated by | Chill Wills |
| Starring | Susan Hayward Robert Preston Pedro Armendáriz |
| Music by | Frank Skinner |
| Cinematography | Winton C. Hoch |
| Editing by | Terry O. Morse |
| Distributed by | Walter Wanger Productions Eagle-Lion films |
| Release date(s) | 26 May 1949 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tulsa is a 1949 Technicolor film that was directed by Stuart Heisler and starred Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills (as the narrator), and featured Ed Begley in one of his earliest film roles, billed as Edward Begley.
The film's plot revolved around greed, conservation, and romance.[1] It was nominated for an Oscar for its special effects in 1950.[2]
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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.[1] 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.[3] 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 preserve the area's grasslands.[3]
A fire started by lighting a polluted stream on fire results in an extravagant fire scene for which the movie got its Oscar nomination.[1] In its aftermath, the oil drillers and the geologist learn to work together.[1]