Review of Tulsa

Tulsa (1949)
4/10
Could Have Been Way Better
27 January 2017
The Plot: 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.

This is a very dated movie. I mean there's a guy riding horseback in a suit! It was interesting to me to see Chill Wills from the 40s. I know him from his 60s and 70s Westerns when he was a craggy old son of a gun.

The movie is rather slow and the topic is not really explored in a smart or effective way. It's not that it's a bad movie, it's just rather trivial.

After a while you just kinda space out because it's not all that compelling.
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