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13/04/1949 Drama 1h 30m
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Tempestuous loves! Lusty adventures! Violent hates!

Overview

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.

  1. Stuart Heisler

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Susan Hayward

    Cherokee Lansing

  2. Robert Preston

    Brad Brady

  3. Pedro Armendáriz

    Jim Redbird

  4. Lloyd Gough

    Bruce Tanner

  5. Chill Wills

    Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)

  6. Ed Begley

    John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)

  7. Jimmy Conlin

    Homer Triplette

  8. Roland Jack

    Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand

  9. Harry Shannon

    Nelse Lansing

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-05-28
This has a slightly incongruous conservation slant to it as it follows the battle between the oil drillers and the local, largely indigenous, Oklahoman farmers. Now forgetting the terrible song at the start from "Pinky" (Chill Wills) - who provides us with the optimistic narration; we are introduced to the honorable "Cherokee" (Susan Hayward) who is after compensation when her father is killed by flying debris from an oil derrick owned by "Tanner" (Lloyd Gough). Nothing doing says he, but when she comes into some oil leases that she can ill afford to exploit, he has enough of a fair-mined (and...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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