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6.4It'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.
Released: 1949-04-1390 minDir: Stuart HeislerDrama
Cast
- Susan Hayward as Cherokee Lansing
- Robert Preston as Brad Brady
- Pedro Armendáriz as Jim Redbird
- Lloyd Gough as Bruce Tanner
- Chill Wills as Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)
- Ed Begley as John J. 'Johnny' Brady (as Edward Begley)
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 1950
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Stuart Heisler
- Screenwriter
- Frank S. Nugent
- Cast member
- Susan Hayward
- Composer
- Frank Skinner
- Producer
- Walter Wanger
- Cinematographer
- Winton Hoch
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1940s color films1949 American films1949 drama films1949 English-language films1949 films1949 Western (genre) filmsAmerican drama filmsAmerican Western (genre) filmsEagle-Lion Films filmsEnglish-language drama filmsEnglish-language Western (genre) filmsFilms about petroleumFilms directed by Stuart Heisler