
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.
Cast

Susan Hayward
Cherokee Lansing

Robert Preston
Brad Brady

Pedro Armendáriz
Jim Redbird

Lloyd Gough
Bruce Tanner

Chill Wills
Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)

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

Jimmy Conlin
Homer Triplette
Roland Jack
Steve, Cherokee's Ranchhand

Harry Shannon
Nelse Lansing

Lola Albright
Candy Williams (uncredited)

Paul E. Burns
Tooley (uncredited)

John Dehner
Oilman (uncredited)
Dick Gordon
Party Guest (uncredited)

Fred Graham
Charlie - Cherokee's Foreman (uncredited)

Frank Hagney
Doorman at Gambling Emporium (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson
Oilman (uncredited)

Larry Keating
Bit Part (uncredited)

Frank Mills
Moving Man (uncredited)

Roger Moore
Oilman (uncredited)

Charles Sherlock
Firefighter (uncredited)

Jay Silverheels
Creek Indian (uncredited)

Dick Wessel
Joker (uncredited)
Crew

Stuart Heisler
Director

Frank S. Nugent
Screenplay
Curtis Kenyon
Screenplay

Richard Wormser
Story

Terry O. Morse
Editor
Winton C. Hoch
Director of Photography

Howard W. Koch
Assistant Director
Walter Wanger
Producer
Edward Lasker
Associate Producer
Owen McLean
Casting
Herschel McCoy
Costume Design
Howard Fogetti
Sound

Frank Skinner
Original Music Composer
Armor Marlowe
Set Decoration
Al Orenbach
Set Decoration
Charles Rose
Grip

Nathan Juran
Art Direction
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