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The film tells a story about the Tulsa, Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s and how obsession with accumulating wealth and power can tend to corrupt moral character. [2] The tale begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from Tanner's oil production has killed some of his cattle. [4]
Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands: Shelley's Poetic Development and Romantic Geography. University of Toronto Press, 2009. Arditi, Neil Lucien. "The Uses of Shelley: 'Alastor' to 'The Triumph of Life' (Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude)." Ph.D. diss., U of Virginia, 1998, DAI, 60-01A (1999): 138 ...
The Movies That Made Us is an American documentary television series created by Brian Volk-Weiss, and a spin-off to The Toys That Made Us. The four episode debut season of the new series is dedicated to popular movies from the 1980s and 1990s, and tells the stories behind them.
Pages in category "Films set in Tulsa, Oklahoma" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
"Mutability" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) although his authorship is not acknowledged, while the 1816 poem by Leigh Hunt is acknowledged with ...
In Memory of My Brother, John Wordsworth, Commander of the E. I. Company's Ship, The Earl Of Abergavenny, in which He Perished by Calamitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6th, 1805. "The Sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo!" Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. 1842 VI 1800–1805 "When, to the attractions of the busy world," Poems on the Naming of Places 1815 Louisa.
Roger Milton Wheeler Sr. (February 27, 1926 – May 27, 1981) was an American businessman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the former chairman of Telex Corporation, and former owner of World Jai Alai. He was murdered by members of organized crime who discovered that Wheeler had uncovered their embezzlement scheme at World Jai Alai.
Keys to Tulsa is a 1997 American crime film directed by Leslie Greif in his directorial debut, written by Harley Peyton, and starring Eric Stoltz and James Spader. It is based on the 1991 novel by Brian Fair Berkey.