Run Time - 1:27:20 File Size - 232mb
Title - Tulsa
Starring - Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills, Edward Bagley, Jimmy Conlin, Roland Jack
Directed by - Stuart Heisler
Producer(s) - Walter Wanger
Screenwriter(s) - Frank Nugent, Curtis Kenyon
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Review
An excellent film that is well worth seeing, maybe even more than once. Tulsa, Oklahoma is the setting for the beginning of the oil boom. Cherokee Lansing's rancher father has been killed during a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee has begun to plot her revenge as she brings in her own wells along with the help of a certain oil expert by the name of Brad Brady and a childhood friend, Jim Redbird.
After the money and the oil both begin to gush in, Jim and Brad decide they want to protect the land but Cherokee has some ideas that are decidedly different. While her plans started out as a way to extract revenge for the death of her father, her efforts have become an obsession for power and wealth.
Susan Hayward does an excellent job portraying the role of Cherokee as she learns to adapt to the changes which money and power inevitably bring. Overall, the film is very well done. This film is highly recommended not only for those who are history buffs but also those who simply want good entertainment. This is a film you will not regret seeing.
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Review
Were you a fan of Rosco from the Dukes of Hazzard? If so, then you definitely will not want to miss this great film starring James Best, none other than Rosco himself. In this great film he portrays a clergyman who is somewhat emotionally tortured. He has volunteered to participate in a government experiment that is highly secretive. At first all the other volunteers in the experiment appear to be normal. As it turns out, they all have secrets they are desperate to hide.
The project is headed up by Dr. Roth and it is intended to study the effects of overpopulation. As the
experiment goes on, the room in which the volunteers are kept grows progressively smaller. The participants are questioned about the secrets they hold most dear until they eventually begin to confess the truth they have tried to cover up for so long.
Unfortunately for everyone involved the experiment takes a turn for the worse. Some of the scientists working on the experiment intend to use it for their own evil purposes. As everyone’s darkest and most embarrassing secrets are dredged up from the past there is no shortage of suffering and pain.
A completely fascinating, intriguing and chilling thriller (with some editing problems) that will leave you questioning the utility of environmental ethics as well as some of the actions of government. A film loaded with dramatic irony, this is definitely a must see.
(Webmaster aside - Well, maybe not. Generally regarded as cheesy by IMDB reviewers, I have to say that I have
rarely seen so many comments by their reviewers on one film. One out of thirteen is favorable, but the net effect is like drawing flies to manure.)
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Run Time - 1:21:01 File Size - 219mb
Title - The Brain Machine
Starring - James Best, Barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney, Marcus I. Grapes, Anne Latham
Directed by - Joy N. Houck, Jr.
Producer(s) - Stephen C. Burnham
Screenwriter(s) - Thomas Hal Phillips, Christian Garrison, Joy N. Houck, Jr.
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