Tulsa
My girlfriend rode with one of he friends who was moving from New York to Santa Fe. She got picked up in Chicago, and along the way they stayed overnight in a hotel in Tulsa. I guess it was a pretty boring place. One of my best friends actually grew up around there so my girlfriend called me when I was there to call him and ask him if there was anything to do. Well the answer was, not much. Although I did direct them towards this strange kind of architectural village and the famous praying hands statue which is kind of creepy and is also the largest bronze sculpture in the world.
My girlfriend and her friends also like to give each other goofy gifts, and shortly after this trip her friend sent her a DVD of this movie she found called simply Tulsa.
So we decided to watch it, and after getting it started I realized it was a lot bigger budget movie than I had expected. I'm not sure why, maybe because it sounded a little bit sensationalist in a B movie way on the DVD cover presentation. And actually if I had known more about the distributor, I would have really assumed it was a B movie. One of the best things about this DVD is the GIGANTIC library of DVD covers you can browse through that are also distributed by Alpha Video. Now after doing some research I found out that Alpha Video specializes in distributing public domain movies on DVD. Check it out for lots of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Roy Rogers. And a bunch of shit staring a group of kids I'd never heard of before called the "East Side Kids". Apparently there were endless amounts of these series of movies staring different groups of young kids such as The Bowery Boys, The Dead End Kids, and Little Tough guys. Of course they all end up getting mixed up together and with Bela Lugosi and Gorillas and other spooks. Man things got pretty inbred back then.
None of that has anything to do with the movie Tulsa, but it was one of the most interesting discoveries from watching the DVD. As for Tulsa itself, it seemed like some kind of old advertisement for "responsible oil companies" kind of like the energy companies today that are talking about things like "clean coal" (does it really exist??). Its kind of addressing the horrible toal oil drilling can take on the environment, but also saying "hey this country was built on oil, and it's a great thing if we use it correctly". Maybe that's true, but the movie kind of says it in a trite and corny way.
It's not a bad movie to have going on in the background if you are interested in movies of the era, but I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to see it.
Rating: 5/10