Oklahoma!

10/10/19552h 28m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ It's Here! ~

Overview:

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

horseback riding
oklahoma
ranch
musical
based on play or musical
frontier
peddler
shivaree
statehood
smokehouse
unspoken love
1900s

Cast

Gordon MacRae

~ as ~

Curly McLain

Gloria Grahame

~ as ~

Ado Annie Carnes

Gene Nelson

~ as ~

Will Parker

Charlotte Greenwood

~ as ~

Aunt Eller

Shirley Jones

~ as ~

Laurey Williams

Eddie Albert

~ as ~

Ali Hakim

James Whitmore

~ as ~

Mr. Carnes

Rod Steiger

~ as ~

Jud Fry

Barbara Lawrence

~ as ~

Gertie

Jay C. Flippen

~ as ~

Skidmore

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
Great music, lyrics and dancing - but boy, what a truly sterile delivery. By necessity, staging has to be precise in a theatre; cinema offers little of such spacial restrictions so why is this musical choreographed to within an inch of it's life? There is virtually none of the spontaneity - especially with the rumbustious dances - that the big screen offered and what we are left with, though colourful and cheery, just lacks... something! So frequently it is as if they are still performing to that seat in the centre of the Royal Circle - complete with the casual supporting cast with their delicate short steps and stage whispers in each other's ear. Gordon MacRae looks pristine, way too pristine, and Gloria Grahame a very pale imitation of Doris Day from 2 years earlier in "Calamity Jane". Charlotte Greenwood does a cracking job as the worldly "Aunt Eller" as does Eddie Albert as the improbably named "Ali Hakim"; even Rod Steiger does genuinely carry off the role of the disgruntled "Jud Fry" but I'm afraid the whole just doesn't equal the sum of the parts - and with Rodgers & Hammerstein providing "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"; "Surrey with a Fringe on Top" "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No" & the eponymous title tune; that's a real shame...